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Improced Transparency, Visibility and Compliance for Imperial Tobacco Group by Using MIC az A Euroean-Wide Customs Platform

Imperial Tobacco Group (ITG) is a worldwide leading tobacco company with a unique portfolio of brands and products across all tobacco categories. Traditionally ITG’s business focus was on UK, only. With the acquisition of Reemtsma in 2002 and Altadis in 2008 ITG became a global player.

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Yard Management Systems separator

This whitepaper’s objective is to help industry professionals understand the basics of yard management and appointment scheduling systems. Yard Management Systems are software applications that manage trucking activity incoming to and within an industrial site such as a distribution center, production campus, or container terminal.

Moving from Excel to a Warehouse Management System separator

Many manufacturers, distributors and retailers operate their warehouses using the popular spreadsheet application Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, Excel is not always well suited for every purpose. A better solution is to entrust the management of your warehouse to a warehouse management system (WMS). A WMS is specially designed for the managing warehouses and features a number of essential industry best practices.

How can you control your distribution costs? separator

Many distributors and wholesalers spend their time concentrating on achieving a better turnover. But it is just as important for them to reduce their distribution costs. That’s right – what is the point of generating a better turnover if a large part of it is eaten up by high operating overheads? It is also becoming increasingly important to keep tight controls on costs…

Understanding Dock Scheduling separator

This whitepaper’s objective is to help industry professionals understand the basics of dock scheduling, supported by real industry case studies. If you haven’t heard much about dock scheduling systems, it may be that, compared to warehouse and transportation management systems (WMS & TMS), dock scheduling is the poor cousin in the family of Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems. Nonetheless, it is still an essential part of your business, and if not properly addressed, can be very costly to your operation. We’ll address the issues, present numerous examples taken from various industries and provide a roadmap towards a solution.

Future Logistics – Everything at your fingertips separator

Buy food while waiting for your train. In South Korea it‘s possible. There are huge photos of supermarket shelves in the underground stations. You order with your mobile by scanning in the product codes. E-commerce is booming— across the world. This has resulted in a rise in the number of orders, while the quantities delivered are constantly dropping. On-demand orders are not only a trend among end users, but also among business customers.