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Businesses that are unable to ensure the availability of right products at the right time run the risk of losing customers. Unavailability of a certain product when they need it the most can frustrate customers to the point that they may end up abandoning the brand....

Inventory management often baffles managers. While managers have to make sure that they have enough stock for order fulfilment, they cannot afford to overstock as it will result in cash getting tied-up in idle inventory. Additionally, managing a warehouse is no...

A Document Management System or DMS is set of standardized practices that involve controlling the creation/authentication of documents, managing the storage of records in a manner that aids simplified and specific retrieval, exercising version control of records,...

For the past three decades, ERP Or Enterprise Resource Planning Systems have been evolving into large scale systems upon which most modern enterprises operate. Without an ERP system, these enterprises would practically cease to exist. ERP systems are ubiquitous,...

As a warehousing company or a company with warehousing operations, you cannot ignore the transformation that business technology can bring. In fact, your current dependence on a WMS or Warehouse Management System is proof of just how important it is to move from...

A Transport Management System, otherwise known as “TMS”, is a platform part of Supply Chain Management focusing on transport logistics. This aspect of SCM deals with the planning, execution and optimization of the physical movement of goods. In other words, it’s a...

If your business is at a point of considering outsourcing a 3PL provider or rather, a transportation management provider, see how 3PL can deliver significant benefits in the following 8 ways.   Dovetail’s FreightWare Transport Management Software Solution is a...

Logistics is widely known as the process of coordinating and moving resources such as equipment, food, liquids, inventory, materials and people from one location to the storage of the desired destination. It was originally a military-based term that was used to...

Warehouse management is by far one of the most extensive and complicated processes in business. Handling tasks such as equipment maintenance to inventory control and distribution optimization proves that warehouse management is crucial for any warehouse business....

Third-Party Logistics, commonly known as 3PL or TPL, is a term used in logistics and supply chain management and refers to the outsourcing of a company’s distribution and fulfilment elements. “3PL” was a term first used in the early 1970s in order to identify...