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Shipping Heavy Freight:  Four Functions You Should Ask a Fulfillment Center To Help With

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Once upon a time, most people would have thought twice before ordering furniture, a piece of exercise equipment, or a kitchen appliance online. Today, such heavy freight orders are commonplace.

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National Private Truck Council (NPTC) Survey Highlights Value, Performance of Private Fleets

Penske Move Ahead

The National Private Truck Council 2021 Benchmarking Survey Report provides fleets with new industry standards to evaluate performance and identify opportunities for improvement. The 2021 NPTC Benchmarking Survey Report, which is sponsored by Penske, captures critical metrics from the 2020 calendar year, which was a time like no other.

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How To Stay Fit as a Truck Driver

Trinity Logistics

TABLE OF CONTENTS THE STATS ADD UP BENEFITS TO EXERCISE TIPS TO ADD EXERCISE INTO YOUR DAY HOW TO STAY FIT AS A TRUCK DRIVER – BEST EXERCISES FOR YOU. In another survey by NIOSH, 41 percent of crashes caused by trucks occur due to physical factors that affected the driver, like fatigue or illness. BENEFITS TO EXERCISE.

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How Supply Chain Orchestration Can Help Prevent Drug Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

Too often forecasting is an exercise is done by a demand planner, who tosses it over the fence to someone else to fulfill. PwC’s 2023 Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey found tepid interest in resilience, which at was a lower priority for investment (cited by 23%) than increasing efficiency (58%) or reducing costs (54%).

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Intelligent Automation, the Future of Supply Chain. Is the Logistics Industry Ready?

Blue Grace Logistics

For this, IBM and NRF surveyed 1,900 retail and consumer products company executives across 23 countries. The survey revealed that “intelligent automation capabilities help increase the annual revenue growth by up to 10 percent”. However, like with all new things, there’s a need to exercise caution.

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Building Brand Loyalty with Last-Mile Logistics

Morai Logistics

In fact, a staggering 88% of consumers who participated in the 2018 Global Consumer Insights Survey , confirmed they would pay more for ‘same-day or faster delivery’. As mentioned above, today, almost 90% of surveyed customers would opt to pay extra for same-day shipping. In 2016, McKinsey found that nearly.

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How to Boost Worker Productivity by Promoting a Positive Mindset

GlobalTranz

Workplace stress is partly physical, and exercise is one of the best antidotes for the physical component of stress. The benefits of regular exercise are indisputable among modern medical experts, say Dr. Elizabeth Anderson and Dr. Geetha Shivakumar in a roundup of the scientific literature.