247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

As the VP of Sales for a large national truckload carrier recently told me, “Today, our negotiation strategy is indifference. After you’ve narrowed down your list to a few finalists, test them and see how they perform. CT featuring shippers and carriers talking about how to weather the Perfect Transportation Storm.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Improved ability to predict and manage trends: After you’ve spent a while working with freight benchmarks, you’ll get a feel for the directions of seasonal rate fluctuations and other pricing trends. Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right. You’ll have a better idea of when rates move up and when they move down.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities.

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Logistics Marketing Advisors

JUNE 20, 2018

How to Comply with GDPR Legislation. However, a bigger headache is created when people take exception to the way you communicate with them and start exercising their privacy rights. Per GDPR, you need to let people know the 7 pieces of information covered in this article. GDPR compliance can be a bit of a headache.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. Let’s begin with a look at why, in general, retailers with multiple sales channels are more likely to experience difficulties in reducing cost-to-serve.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 6, 2018

After all, they want to make their money back as quickly as possible and then sit back as the profits from sales roll in. In other words, investors like to see a business’ sales revenue grow faster than its costs. How economies of scale affect that balancing act is the subject of this article.

Purchasing Skills 28

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

You then set a sales price for that product. Your sales price minus your production cost is your overall profit or margin; at least, before allowing for further expenses. Sales organisation costs. A knee-jerk reaction to a loss-making sale might be to stop selling that way. Efficient order terms. Marketing costs.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

D’Angelo also pointed to autonomous vehicles and drones, and the model for vehicle production and sales that Tesla heralded. This is something Anu Goel, executive vice-president, group after sales & services at VW Group of America, also picked up on, stating that vehicles getting bigger meant fewer being shipped per rail wagon or truck.

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