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Playbook
Manufacturing Industry Playbook
Digital Transformation: Why You Can't Afford to Wait. The playbook offers Manufacturers a realistic and viable guide to balancing immediate needs with future-focused strategy.
Article
Parcel Is a Crucial Value-Add in the Evolution of the TMS
Shippers and 3PLs are meeting growing market demands with integrated parcel management.
Toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit for Manufacturers
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make an informed decision about what supply chain platform is right for your business.
webinar
Enabling Assurance of Supply in the Global Marketplace
Talking Logistics
The shift from demand-driven to supply-driven processes and exciting new opportunities for enabling assurance of supply
analyst report
MPO Named Technology Leader in Omnichannel OMS Matrix
The Quadrant Knowledge Solutions SPARK Matrix™ provides competitive analysis & ranking of the leading Omnichannel Order Management Systems platform vendors.
Whitepaper
The “Multi-Multi” Supply Chain Problem No One Is Talking About
To truly achieve agility, flexibility, and resilience across the supply chain, tech strategies must first grapple with the 'multi-multi' problem
Analyst Report
MPO Named Leader in MESCBN SPARK Matrix
This profile details why the analyst named MPO a leader in multi-enterprise supply chain business network technology.
Infographic
5 Benefits of Integrated Parcel Management
Today's multi-modal TMS covers integrated parcel (small pack) management, saving businesses on time, costs and efficiencies.
Solution Guide
Transportation Management Solution
MPO's TMS enables customers from diverse industries to improve operational efficiency and optimize service levels and costs.
Solution Guide
10 FAQs: Transportation Management Systems
Answers to common questions about Transportation Management Systems and choosing the best TMS for your specific goals.
Solution Guide
Control Tower & Visibility
To meet evolving customer demands profitably within a global, networked, multi-channel supply chain, you need visibility.
infographic
4 Ways to Enhance Your E2E Supply Chain Using Machine Learning
Digital technology like machine learning help organizations mitigate risk and build resilient supply chains.
checklist
End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility
How strong is your supply chain visibility solution? Use this checklist as a guide to determine the breadth and depth of your needs.
infographic
Enhance Your Supply Chain Through Machine Learning
Build resilience and reduce risk in your supply chain through continuous, intelligent improvement and optimization
infographic
5 Smart Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Here are five ways the MPO Supply Chain Orchestration Platform can help you reach your sustainability goals.
article
A New Model of Supply Chain Planning
Learn how an integrated, instant, and intelligent approach can help your business become more resilient, agile, and consistent.
whitepaper
5 Ways to Ensure a Successful Supply Chain Software Implementation
The strength and success of an upgrade will inevitably depend on the people implementing and executing it.
Infographic
Embrace Complexity With Dynamic Supply Chain Planning
Get the technology you need to continuously re-plan and optimize your supply chain.
analyst report
Control Tower Technology Value Matrix
Nucleus Research
A Nucleus Research review of Control Tower technology and value matrix based on functionality and usability
Whitepaper
The Art of Consistent Perfect Order Delivery
Consistent perfect order delivery - on-time and in-full at the lowest possible cost – is critical.
Webinar
Digital Order Fulfillment: Fast, Visible, & Cost-Efficient Delivery
Manufacturers are currently under-prepared to deal with the accelerated changes brought by omni-channel retail.
Infographic
6 Critical Components of Omnichannel Order Management
Omnichannel order management covers the entire customer experience
Case Story
GEODIS Saves Customer $1.5 Million a Year With MPO Global Inbound Management
By leveraging MPO’s Supply Chain Orchestration platform, GEODIS was able to significantly enhance their customer's efficiency and enable incredible cost-savings.
Webinar
Demystifying Control Towers: What Drives Effectiveness?
There are several competing definitions of supply chain control towers. Here to demystify their meaning and what it takes to have a successful implementation are
Whitepaper
Digital Order Fulfillment: The Traditional Approach Isn't Working - What's the Alternative
Getting products to end customers as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible is no longer linear, but involves dynamic processes.
article
Changing the Game With Digital Transportation Management
Taking into account current market challenges, this feature investigates how the MPO TMS enables businesses to offer customers the most cost-effective, flexible, and efficient services
Infographic
Supply Chain Orchestration Platform
The value chain makes up about 80% of external network activities for many companies - yet most don't have the supply chain technology they need to optimize their business partnering.
Infographic
Multi-Tier Inventory Management
In today’s highly complex supply chains, cost-effective fulfillment begins with intelligent inventory management.
article
Converging Order and Logistics Management
By integrating order, transport, and logistics management, businesses can drive collaboration and optimization across enterprise and network silos for greater visibility, cost control, and consistent OTIF delivery.
toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit: Build a Resilient Supply Chain
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of supply chain solutions that build flexibility and agility for greater resilience.
Whitepaper
Building Resilient, Future-Proof Supply Chains
The global supply chain is always subject to disruption, with global pandemics, tariffs, trade wars, and natural disasters
Case Story
Global Contract Manufacturer Uses Digital Platform to Empower Its Customers
Technology leader, Flex manages 16,000 worldwide suppliers and manufactures 12,500 unique end products.
Video
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3 Easy Ways to Improve Returns Management
Having a world-class returns solution that boosts profitability and customer satisfaction is easier than you think.
Analyst Report
The Value of Orchestration With MPO
Nucleus analyst Isaac Gould describes how MPO helps its customers adapt and minimize risk
Case Story
LSP Wows Global Client, Quickly Advances to Become End-to-End Provider
Find out how MPO’s Control Tower and Order-Centric TMS enhanced visibility across a global network of warehouses and carriers
Whitepaper
Making the Case: Optimizing Logistics
Managers are realizing that a modern, Order-Centric TMS is essential, and can fulfill the needs of both shippers and logistics providers
toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit for Logistics Service Providers (LSP / 3PL / 4PL)
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help logistics service providers make the most informed decision as a buyer of supply chain technology.
playbook
LSP Digital Transformation Playbook
How a Supply Chain Orchestration platform via Control Tower, Visibility, and Order-Centric Transportation Management capabilities helps logistics service providers overcome their greatest challenges.
playbook
Logistics Control Tower Playbook
Get strategic about your digital transformation with a more technical glimpse into the MPO platform's capabilities.
Infographic
The Future of Reverse Supply Chains
Digitizing and automating is easier and faster than most realize.
Webinar
Driving a Successful Technology Strategy for Omni-Channel Fulfillment
Technology leaders today face an unprecedented challenge. Especially in our current state of disruption, customer demands have risen across channels
article
How Digitizing Reverse Supply Chains Became Non-Negotiable
The time is now to begin taking action and changing the way we think and talk about returns management.
Infographic
Why Prioritize Supply Chain Visibility?
As the supply chain continues to evolve and digitize, real actionability and holistic visibility is more possible than ever before.
Whitepaper
The Next Evolution of the Supply Chain Control Tower
As the supply chain continues to evolve and digitize, a supply chain control tower that provides real actionability and holistic visibility is more possible than ever before.
Infographic
Multi-Level Order Management
Multi-level order management is a game-changer, enabling extraordinary flexibility in supply chain planning and execution.
Toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit: Digital Transformation
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of supply chain technology.
podcast and interview
How Can a Digital Transformation Help Future-Proof Companies Against Disruption?
The unprecedented disruption of COVID-19 has shippers looking to technology to not only manage the impact now, but future-proof their supply chains for years to come. But are businesses ready for full-on digitization?
toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit: Supply Chain Visibility
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of Supply Chain Visibility software.
Solution Guide
The Barging Industry
The barging industry faces many challenges – efficiently handling complex flows, dealing with river uncertainties, gaining network-wide transparency.
Case Story
Efficiencies & Revenues Skyrocket for Distributor With Digital Order & Logistics Management
Managing a highly complex supply chain network is no easy feat – especially while running eleven distribution centers
Whitepaper
Key Differentiators: Control Tower for Supply Chain Orchestration
Businesses require a supply chain platform that will enable systems unification, network-wide collaboration, and process convergence.
Infographic
Micro Supply Chain
Order fulfillment can involve complex, multi-form processes; but at the end of the day, customers just want a consistent and satisfying experience.
toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit: Digital Order Management & Fulfillment
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of order management and omni-channel fulfillment solutions.
Toolkit
Solution Buyer Toolkit: Supply Chain Business Network
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of multi-enterprise technology.
article
A Rich & Unique Supply Chain Orchestration Platform for the Global Industry
Named "Most Influential Leader in Supply Chain Technology" by trade journal, this article details MPO's offer, founding mission and values, and what makes the platform unique.
Solution Guide
Logistics Service Providers
LSPs face the daunting challenge of delivering cost-effective services against stiff industry competition.
Solution Guide
Optimize Omni-Channel Fulfillment
In the highly competitive world of e-fulfillment, fast and consistent on-time and in-full delivery plays a significant role
Whitepaper
The Age of the Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Network
Companies rely on their multi-enterprise supply chain business networks to stay flexible; when unexpected events occur, it’s important to have options.
Solution Guide
Aftermarket Services
Aftermarket and spare parts services is one of the most underutilized functions of the supply chain
toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit: Returns & Aftermarket Management
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of returns and aftermarket management solutions.
Solution Guide
Automate & Optimize Reverse Logistics
A practical overview of why a unified and converged approach will make all the difference in running an efficient and cost-effective supply chain
podcast and interview
Omni-Channel Fulfillment: Converging the Physical & Digital Worlds
In this brief interview, MPO's VP of Solutions, Vijay Natarajan, discusses the new complexities brands face with omni-channel fulfillment and what it takes to successfully meet those challenges.
ebook
Maslow's Hierarchy of Supply Chain Needs
There's no direct path to the top without first finding your footing in each step of the hierarchy
Infographic
5 Reasons to Choose a Natively Unified Supply Chain Orchestration Platform
A natively unified platform offers supply chain capabilities - such as order and transport management, as well as visibility and control over these functions - on a single platform.
ebook
Making the Case for a Digital Transformation
As the supply chain continues to evolve, digital transformations are increasingly recognized as continuous and necessary investments
Infographic
Guide to Fast-Tracking a Digital Transformation
With tacit approval from senior management to pick a solution and spend what it takes, there are a few key ways to successfully fast-track your digital transformation
Checklist
Control Tower Buyer's Checklist
The following checklist will help you ask the right questions and ensure you select the most optimal, long-lasting supply chain Visibility and Control solution
Checklist
TMS Buyer's Checklist
The following checklist will help you ask the right questions and ensure you select a robust TMS to effectively address your business challenges
Infographic
Comparing 2 Types of TMS
This guide offers some insight into how these two frameworks differ in terms of capability, functionality, and implementation.
Case Story
Customer-Driven Evolution in eCommerce
Wehkamp, the largest e-retailer in the Netherlands, invested in the world’s largest automated e-commerce distribution center
roadmap
The brand owner path to omni-channel order fulfillment
Explore some of the common challenges to omni-channel fulfillment, and how to overcome them to better satisfy customers and compete globally.
podcast and interview
Supply Chain Disruption & How to Become the New Leader in Your Market
In this brief interview, MPO CEO and Co-Founder, Martin Verwijmeren, talks about what separates industry winners from those who struggle to keep pace, including underutilized approaches to supply chain orchestration.
Whitepaper
Digital Supply Chain Control Towers: Selecting the Best Fit for Your Business Needs
Supply chain Control Towers are one of the most recognized and sought after solutions for enhancing collaborations and unifying disparate systems
toolkit
Solution Buyer's Toolkit: Control Tower
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of digital supply chain Control Towers.
Infographic
Control Tower Buyer’s Guide
Not all Control Towers are created equal. When exploring solutions, you’ll quickly find that capabilities vary widely
Infographic
How to Master Last Mile Logistics
Your customer's lasting impression comes from how conveniently and reliably they get their products.
toolkit
Solution Buyer Toolkit: Transportation Management
Browse and explore a range of topical resources to help you make the most informed decision as a buyer of transportation management systems.
Whitepaper
Order-Centric TMS: Managing the Rising Pressures of the Modern Supply Chain
With the advent of e-commerce, businesses are under increasing pressure to keep pace with growing customer demands
Whitepaper
Supply Chain Visibility: From Passive to Active
Businesses have access to more data than ever before and the speed at which we are collecting it today, it seems almost impossible to keep up with it all.
podcast and interview
The Vital Power of Making Perfect Orders
Martin Verwijmeren, CEO of MPO, and Russel Goodman, Editor-in-Chief at SupplyChainBrain talk about why companies that master the perfect order win market share, but they don't have to be behemoths like Amazon to succeed.
podcast and interview
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Digital Supply Chain Control Towers: A Primer
Adrian Gonzalez of Talking Logistics speaks with President & CEO of International Package Shipping, Tom Nightingale and MPO CEO & Co-Founder, Martin Verwijmeren about how 'The Amazon Effect' impacted the needs of supply chain managers and how software is changing what's possible in supply chain visibility and control.
podcast and interview
The Fear of Not Acting Is Way Higher than the Fear of Acting
In this episode of The Entrepreneur Way, Martin Verwijmeren, Co-Founder and CEO of MPO, explains why so many businesses are afraid to act - and why it's imperative they do.
Webinar
Returns: Taming the Beast in eCommerce and Aftermarket Operations
Whether it's omni-channel returns, service parts logistics, depot repair, or product replacement and exchanges, reverse supply chains present their own unique challenges
Case Story
How DtD Optimized Customer Service With Micro Supply Chains
When it comes to order management, one size fits no one. Here's how a contract manufacturer drove better service levels and faster delivery via optimized micro supply chains.
case story
DSV Gains Better Insight Into and Control Over Transport
Organizing transport for many diverse customers is complex. Learn how DSV Solutions used the MPO cloud platform to improve operations.
Webinar
Critical Functions of Modern Control Towers Webinar
We’re all familiar with the challenges of buying enterprise technology for the supply chain. Seemingly endless alternatives and substitutes
podcast and interview
Achieving the Perfect Order
Sarah Barnes of "2 Babes Talk Logistics" interviews MPO executives on achieving the perfect order using Supply Chain Orchestration.
podcast and interview
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Enabling Agility & Flexibility in Global Supply Chains
Adrian Gonzalez of Talking Logistics speaks with MPO CEO Martin Verwijmeren and Geodis VP of Supply Chain Optimization, Eric St. Amand, about the need for growth-minded businesses to deliver on both operational excellence and customer intimacy rather than specializing in one over the other.
Case Story
How Kramp Optimized Their Network, Ensuring OTIF at the Best Cost
Founded in 1951 and operating in over 22 countries across Europe, Kramp delivers critical agricultural spare parts through local dealer networks.
Webinar
Mindmapping Supply Chain Orchestration
A visual mindmapping approach to supply chain orchestration
Webinar
Making Perfect Orders: Delivering On Customer Expectations in a Complex World
In today’s ‘Age of the Customer’ with its elevated expectations and accelerating complexity, delivering on the Perfect Order
Webinar
The Evolution of the Control Tower & Digital Supply Chain
Digitization has changed everything and it’s helping to usher in an era of increased customer expectations.
Webinar
Five Trends Forcing Innovation in Your Supply Chain
Have you felt it? There’s been a seismic shift in power within our economy. Customers are in control
Whitepaper
5 Trends Forcing Innovation in Your Supply Chain
It's no secret that customer requirements have shifted dramatically with the rise of digitization.