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The Top 100 Logistics Companies with Seth Clevenger

The Logistics of Logistics

Below are some highlights from Seth’s article, 2023 Top 100 Logistics List Highlights Growth for 3PLs. Shippers have replenished their inventories after struggling with supply chain bottlenecks during the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Ryder Supply Chain Solutions climbed into the top 10 after expanding its revenue to $6.5

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Warehouse Automation: Top Five Factors Impacting Adoption

Logistics Viewpoints

I provided a glimpse of the study content in an article in October that lists the top 20 warehouse automation suppliers , based on ARC’s estimates of 2021 revenues. Together, these two articles provide a substantial quantitative and qualitative overview of the global warehouse automation market. percent four-year CAGR.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

If you can only say “No”, I will not be surprised, because many companies have never drilled down into the costs involved in selling specific SKU categories, individual SKUs, or providing particular services connected with those sales, to specific customers or customer categories. And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

The holiday rush is coming, and Amazon announced that it will start its holiday promotional season early with the second annual Prime Big Deal Days sales extravaganza kicking off Tuesday, October 10. Earlier this week, I wrote an article highlighting that cargo theft is on the rise. California Gov.

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

After months of dire predictions, many in the financial community are lowering the odds of a recession in the next year. A famous 2010 HBR article, “Roaring Out of Recession,” studied how 4,700 public companies fared during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000. 17% went bankrupt, went private, or were acquired.

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How AI and Logistics Tech Can Boost Van, Truck & DSD Sales in the Middle East

Locus

The first is when a retail outlet places an order through their enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, which you then slot in your upcoming routes: The pre-sales approach. For this monumental task, you often receive sizable commissions on the sale of these goods from CPG manufacturers. How does one bring about this consistency?

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5 Important Considerations When Importing from China

Forto

Deal with the customs formalities – also to be able to calculate your sales prices exactly. Manufacturers in China often produce articles much cheaper, so the profit margins in sales are therefore higher. After all, what good are articles that you are not allowed to market here?