A General Rate Increase (GRI) is a rise in a carrier’s base shipping rate that applies to all shipments, regardless of the service or class of service. Often, rate increases reflect higher demand. But that is not the case right now. Rather, this past year,...
Custom freight audit solutions from SSI are precisely designed to meet your business needs. Our multi-modal freight audits help you save money, cut waste, and maximize efficiencies while yielding actionable supply chain intelligence for informed decision making. Interested in working together? Let’s talk! BENEFITS OF SSI CUSTOM...
Today, considering how climate change will impact your supply chains is crucial to your business. The trends are clear. The last nine years have been the hottest ever recorded. Each of the last five decades have been hotter than the previous one.1 Ocean temperatures are rising,...
India is stepping into the global supply chain spotlight, as corporations worldwide seek to boost resilience by diversifying and de-risking their supplier networks. India’s warming relations with Washington, deepening connections with tech-industry leaders, savvy investments in transportation infrastructure, and the country’s remarkable demographic trends have...
Is your supply chain recession resilient? Mixed signals in the U.S. and global economies are keeping many supply chain professionals up at night. In this season of economic uncertainty you can rest easier knowing SSI multimodal freight audits enhance your recession resilience. First of all, with...
Supply chain analytics reporting is a vital resource SSI customers can tap into to gain insights, optimize performance, and save money. In fact, our best-in-class freight audit services yield indispensable data analytics for many of our customers. Those in supply chain management roles as well...
SSI provides exceptional freight audit, refund recovery, freight payment, and transportation data analytics services. Our best-in-class global freight audit service provides you with a constant flow of carrier refunds that go straight to your bottom line. Plus, our expedient payment process not only saves you time and...
Supply chain managers are swiftly moving to implement reshoring and nearshoring strategies. 88% of U.S.-based small and medium-sized business (SMBs) are reconfiguring supply chains this year in order to use suppliers in the U.S. or Mexico, according to a recent survey by Capterra, a Gartner-owned...
Agile supply chain management has become a strategic and operational priority for many businesses with corporate leaders eager to tame the rampant supply chain disruptions of recent years. Many companies are rethinking their supply chains to increase resiliency and reduce exposure to geopolitical risks. According to...
Global supply chain disruptions will continue to challenge Operations, Logistics, Shipping, and Supply Chain leaders in 2023. That’s a key conclusion from an article in Logistics Management magazine which recently published a Supply Chain Disruptions Study. Remarkably, more than 93% of professionals surveyed agreed that the...