GoShip Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Creating and sticking to the right truckload shipping strategy can enhance your overall efforts, save money, and increase profitability. Generally, truckload shipping strategies are created to make your freight more attractive to carriers, reduce costs, decrease risks and claims , and increase overall shipping efficiency. Lead times.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Today, we continue our series highlighting our top blog posts of the year! That then allows us to create more of that kind of content for our award-winning blog This year we will feature the top blog posts by page views in the following categories: Manufacturing , Logistics , Freight , and the Supply Chain. Read more here.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Consumer buying behavior has tightened capacity in all modes of transportation. What This Blog Is About: Shipper’s top concerns for their supply chain. Leveraging different modes of transportation can support specific delivery expectations during times of tight capacity. To read the entire blog visit BlueGrace Logistics.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Consumer purchasing is spiking weeks earlier than historical levels, and increased demand for last-mile delivery has put pressure on capacity, service and pricing. A trending shift from “just in time” to “just in case” inventory management is further straining capacity as shippers order goods earlier and in greater quantities.

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Locus

JUNE 15, 2023

If you were unable to attend the symposium, Our Chief Revenue Officer, Mehul Kapadia summed up the key themes from the symposium for SCM leaders, focusing on the top challenges they must surmount in 2023, and the strategies unveiled at the symposium to optimize supply chains, with a particular emphasis on last-mile delivery. Watch Webinar 3.

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Parade

JANUARY 10, 2022

Asking the right questions can help make sure your capacity management solution helps you achieve your goals. Choosing the right capacity management vendor can be complicated. However, capacity management is a little more complicated than that. Your capacity management provider should offer you success on your terms.

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Parade

JANUARY 10, 2022

Asking the right questions can help make sure your capacity management solution helps you achieve your goals. Choosing the right capacity management vendor can be complicated. However, capacity management is a little more complicated than that. Your capacity management provider should offer you success on your terms.

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MercuryGate

MAY 31, 2022

Freight procurement is securing enough available transportation capacity to haul cargo from origin to destination. Traditionally, securing that capacity has relied, in large part, on long-term contracts secured through annual or bi-annual RFPs.

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Locus

MAY 15, 2023

Brands need to adopt the latest supply chain and last-mile logistics solutions to make the D2C model a successful business strategy. They don’t care about capacity or fleet issues that brands are having; they just want their orders to be delivered on time and in a predictability way.

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Locus

JUNE 23, 2023

So, knowing more about order fulfillment, its importance, process, and strategies is critical. Read Also: 5 Ways to Ace Last-mile Reverse Logistics What are the Order fulfillment strategies, and which is right for your business? So there is no fixed rule for selecting the order fulfillment strategy. Let’s fill in!

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Shippers are feeling the effects of scarce carrier capacity. The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. With luck, the shipper may find and contract with another carrier that has available space despite the driver shortage and scarce capacity. Scarce available trucking capacity leads to higher shipping costs.

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Parade

JANUARY 7, 2022

Parade’s new feature helps brokerages find carrier capacity in every quote, even the ones they don’t use. The New Parade Feature in a Nutshell The new feature focuses on showing customers not only capacity within their current network, but also other potential capacity our system has identified. There’s no shame in it.

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Parade

JANUARY 7, 2022

Parade’s new feature helps brokerages find carrier capacity in every quote, even the ones they don’t use. The New Parade Feature in a Nutshell The new feature focuses on showing customers not only capacity within their current network, but also other potential capacity our system has identified. There’s no shame in it.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 19, 2018

These rates will have natural implications for smaller shippers seeking to lower overall transportation and freight spend, and paired with a “blurred lines between peak shipping and shopping seasons,” shippers will experience increasing trouble when trying to procure full truckload capacity. Download eBook. Fortunately, a solution exists.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 10, 2021

What This Blog Is About: What is omnichannel and its impact on physical retail? Over the last decade, ever since social media and the IoT became common-place mediums, there has been a change in marketing tools and strategies. A more streamlined communication is provided by omnichannel strategies.

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3PL Links

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Unlocking Customer Satisfaction: Is Your Fulfilment Strategy Aligned with Expectations? Unlocking Customer Satisfaction: Is Your Fulfilment Strategy Aligned with Expectations? The capacity to maximize gross margin across the network during the selling season is the most crucial element.

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Morai Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2018

This post highlights three strategic areas which many companies overlooked in 2017; strategy, security & interaction, and how to best achieve improvements in these areas. For this reason in today’s blog post, we’ve highlighted some important developments in the world of supply chains and how to best tackle these new challenges.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 16, 2021

That information then leads to improved rates, capacity, and several other benefits. Near-real-time data enables predictive modeling of rates, capacity, volumes and rejections. Real-time freight data allows for better predictive modeling of rates, capacity, volumes and tender rejections. Download the White Paper.

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Locus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Similarly, before the peak shipping season, logistics businesses must secure their capacity and ensure the best drivers are available during those unforgiving times. Also, they can devise strategies to improve the delivery performance of the least-performing drivers by addressing their bottlenecks and operational inefficiencies.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 15, 2018

Omni-channel strategies prove to be an effective method for meeting on-demand delivery for consumers and providing efficient solutions for shippers. Research presented supports an industry shift from traditional to Omni-channel strategy, finding that it enables third party logistic (3PL) providers to offer all distribution initiatives.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MAY 14, 2024

Aggressive pricing/cost savings strategies have contributed significantly to creating a sustained volatility in the domestic transportation market. Shippers drive prices higher when they bid against one another for available capacity in tight markets. Carriers drive prices lower, bidding for business when capacity is readily available.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2016

In each of the blog posts we will include the title, the brief excerpt, and then the link of the top 5 blog posts in that category by the amount of views. . The competition is fierce in each category, as so far this year we have published over 150 blog posts! 5 Most Popular Freight Blog Posts of 2016.So

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Carter Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2019

Blog Topics. Capacity Issue Affecting Transportation in Supply Chain Management. Logistics capacity shortage has been a global phenomenon for years, and it is affecting everyone in the supply chain including retailers, distributors, suppliers, and manufacturers. What is Causing the Transportation Capacity Shortage?

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 2, 2024

What Shippers Can Expect During this week, shippers can typically expect some impact on transportation capacity and pricing within the freight market. As a result, there could be a temporary tightening of capacity in the freight market as carriers prioritize compliance and may be more selective with the loads they accept.

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MercuryGate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Demand continues to overpower the supply chain as experts scramble to find more capacity and methods for on-time delivery. The post How E-Commerce Logistics Accelerates the Need For Omnichannel Strategies & Omnimodal Execution appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 22, 2021

In this edition of “SONAR Indices & Insights,” readers will learn about FreightWaves SONAR’s Weighted Rejection Index (WRI) to monitor trucking capacity in the freight market and the impact rejections have on shipping rates. What does WRI say about capacity and shipping rates? What is the Weighted Rejection Index (WRI)?

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MercuryGate

APRIL 30, 2021

Of all the challenges that face carriers, brokers, and transportation service providers, one of the most time-consuming remains maintaining carrier density and capacity. The post Shipper-of-Choice Strategy: Why Carrier Density Doesn’t Always Amount to Higher Acceptance Rates appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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Parade

MARCH 29, 2022

You Get a Funnel of Quotes Fast Since Parade allows brokerages to reach out directly to a wide capacity network wherever carriers like to find loads, whether that be load boards, via email, or through the Parade portal, you can get your loads in front of qualified carriers quickly.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Nick ’s operational focus and capacity to find a path forward, no matter the challenge, make his skills indispensable when working on a project, problem, or idea. Create great content via articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, etc. Leverage social media to communicate, connect, and persuade prospective customers. Nick Dangles.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Phone This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Despite these efforts, to date the attacks continue, pushing most major carriers representing over 60% of global container capacity, to alter their routes.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 5, 2016

We continue our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our first post covered the Top 5 Freight Management blogs of 2016. Today's post will cover the top 5 logistics blogs from 2016 so far. Top Logistics Blogs from the First Half of 2016 So Far.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Today, is day two of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation Management , Freight. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2017, and over 360,000 page views on those posts alone.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you’ve ever paid $10 for an Uber ride to the cocktail lounge in the evening and then a “surge priced” $50 for the same distance Uber ride back to your home only a few hours later around closing time, you understand the dynamics troubling shippers in today’s capacity constrained transportation market.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 5, 2022

They’re getting back up to full capacity. Capacity will tighten up a little bit. To read the entire blog visit BlueGrace Logistics. But in the last few days Shanghai specifically —which is where you want to check if you want to figure things out — they’ve unlocked their ports.

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Parade

MARCH 18, 2019

Brokerages must think of an alternative data source outside of tribal knowledge to procure high quality and profitable carrier capacity. A powerful carrier intelligence system will assist in predicting capacity availability as well as identifying high-quality and high-margin carriers to accelerate rep decision-making and quality.

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CLX Logistics

JULY 26, 2021

Let’s look at the facts – the percentage of supply chain managers using new analytics tools and services to develop better bidding strategies has increased from 17% in 2017 to more than 30% in 2020. Procurement Event Strategies. Not every platform offers expert-enhanced procurement event strategies on top of a digital platform!

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CH Robinson Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Are You Prepared for Tight Truckload Capacity? In the aftermath of Harvey and Irma, truckload capacity is tighter than it has been for years, giving some shippers challenges in covering freight. What’s causing tight truckload capacity. What’s causing tight truckload capacity | Transportfolio. Transportfolio. Keep in mind.

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