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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. Meanwhile Forrester Research estimated that eCommerce purchases of furniture would grow at a compound annual rate of about 15% from 2014 to 2019.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Blue Horseshoe and Microsoft have a long-standing relationship when it comes to creating warehousing and transportation capabilities for Microsoft customers. Microsoft purchased Blue Horseshoe’s warehousing and transportation products in 2012. This in turn meant adding new shifts, which was also a nontrivial exercise.

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CMA CGM Caps Its Rates: What Does This Mean for Container Shipping?

ShipLilly

ROTTERDAM – JAN 13, 2012: CMA CGM Alaska container ship moored at the ECT Terminal in Rotterdam. Others are of the view that this is nothing more than a public relations exercise without really dealing with spot capacity and price issues. CMA CGM noted this fact when making the announcement.

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Freeports and Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

For instance, rather than paying tariffs on separate components required to be imported from elsewhere, all parts could be transported tariff-free to a free port zone and then assembled within it. The other main question-mark over the feasibility of freeports hangs over their former quiet exit in 2012.

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How to Benchmark Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

It’s a strategy worth considering before looking at external benchmarking, because it might allow you to reduce the scope of an external benchmarking exercise, and narrow the gaps between your company and its peers. 3 Good Reasons to Start With Internal Benchmarking. Ready to SCOR with External Benchmarking? Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne.

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How to Benchmark Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

It’s a strategy worth considering before looking at external benchmarking, because it might allow you to reduce the scope of an external benchmarking exercise, and narrow the gaps between your company and its peers. 3 Good Reasons to Start With Internal Benchmarking. Ready to SCOR with External Benchmarking? Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne.

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Tyranny of the Easy Button: Finding Balance Between Contract & Organic Logistics

Logistics in War

Transportation. Furthermore, with contractor utilization becoming more commonplace on the battlefield, commanders began expecting similar support at home during exercises. Unfortunately, these challenges are precisely the point of exercise training. Ammunition storage and supply. Base camp operations. Equipment maintenance.