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Optimizing Your Freight Costs

GoShip Blog

A logistics strategy called freight consolidation allows businesses to combine their less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments with similar destinations onto a single truck. Freight consolidation is ideal for small businesses that do not ship full truckloads frequently or those that mostly ship smaller parcels.

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The State of the Trucking Market in 2021

GlobalTranz

As a result, flatbed will grow tighter as 2021 wears on, and shippers in need of flatbed will need to rethink their strategies, such as working with more regional carriers to source capacity and create long-haul moves without necessarily requiring a long-haul driver for every movement. Hurricane season causes an influx of demand for flatbed.

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What is Lean Logistics? 5 Ways to Manage Lean Logistics Effectively

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Lean management is now universally recognized as the norm for industrial businesses. What does this signify for supply chain management and logistics? Like other businesses, logistics is experiencing a rapid change in client demands. Some businesses manage their inventories using software.

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The Role of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management

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Business logistics were typically fragmented and lacked coordinated operations until the middle of the 1970s. The information set must include Business Intelligence tools and be different in decision support. One can relate human capital, technology, new manufacturing tools, management, etc.

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5 Skills Necessary For Maximizing Logistics Effectiveness

GlobalTranz

. Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friend Robert Everett who gives us some fantastic tips for managing logistics effectiveness. With this approach, the supply chain focuses on outputs that are crucial for the end customer and identifies failures and their roots in the business processes. Process improvement.

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Top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management Training Programs and Courses in 2016

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from our friend Kelli Harris, a consultant and recent college graduate in Logistics Management. Today, Kelly shares the top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management training programs and courses available in 2016. Such management is important for success and development of your business.