Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 17, 2018

This is my last blog and that is why I have decided to write about my professional experience in the logistics sector. Among the clients of this company are Mercadona, Consum, LIDL, Carrefour … of which we have spoken during this course. On the contrary, the buyer assumes the costs and risks inherent to the transport.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

A new year is underway, and what better way to begin our 2023 blog activity than with a summary of the freshest news from the supply chain and logistics theatre? But, of course, with so many cases in such a vastly populated nation, the risk of a new variant emerging to start the whole cycle over again cannot be underestimated.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

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. If it were simply the fact that online sales typically involve home delivery, then omnichannel sellers would have no more cost-to-serve challenges than their pure-play online competitors.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In addition, the logistics and transportation industry is very competitive with few barriers to entry. Here are three tips to help guide you on how to be a successful freight broker and freight sales and ultimately, freight broker profit. . Differentiation for freight brokers is often difficult to achieve. Bundling services.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2017

But, modern businesses have grown to encompass an omnichannel sales opportunity. In other words, manufacturers need analytics from point-of-sale systems, transportation metrics and more. B2B sales are more fickle than business-to-customer sales. Be There for Customers After the Sale.

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GoShip Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

Of course, this is nothing new to the industry, but the COVID-19 pandemic made companies innovate ways to establish or maintain a strong online presence. Plan your transportation budget. We recently published a handful of tips on how to successfully set up a transportation budget for a small business in 2021. .

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Forto

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Because one thing is certain: These days are an excellent opportunity for you to boost your sales and compete with your rivals. After all, these two days are only two of the biggest sale days in the e-commerce. billion in online sales in 2018. billion in online sales in 2018. That is an uplift of 23.3

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 30, 2023

The lack of a mechanism to tie contracts to prevailing market conditions creates enormous inefficiencies in freight transportation. Tender acceptance can range from 98% to just 75% over the course of a freight cycle, causing disruptions to supply chains that result in charge-backs, stockouts and lost sales.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Of course, that all depends on seeing the activities that are occurring, benchmarking current carrier operations and continuously improving. Of course, there are many other trucking KPIs that frequently are utilized by managers to monitor fleet operations. After all, truck fleet management is a challenging and high-pressure job.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Of course, there’s another advantage. Aside from labor costs and energy use, transportation costs comprise a shipper’s most significant expenses. Unfortunately, the Amazon Effect has created a world of micro-thin profit margins for shipping and sales alike.

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Freightos

JULY 11, 2017

One of the first rules forwarders drill into their sales teams is that it’s all about key accounts. But as markets shift, technology shifts and, most importantly, margins shrink , forwarders are starting to revisit this core tenet of sales. Speaking in Detroit in June 2017, Jack Ma encouraged US sellers to increase their sales abroad.

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Forto

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Because one thing is certain: These days are an excellent opportunity for you to boost your sales and compete with your rivals. . After all, these two days are only two of the biggest sale days in the e-commerce. . billion in online sales in 2018. billion in online sales in 2018. That is an uplift of 23.3

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today we finalize our most viewed articles from the Cerasis blog by featuring the most read freight articles published in 2015. Top Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015. We encourage you to use the search function at the right of the blog or the category picker to find any content you'd like to read.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 10, 2023

As your enterprise grows or market conditions change, it may become evident that your organisation can benefit from partnering with a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Partnering with a 3PL provider is one way to increase the scale of your logistics operation.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. We hope you continue to enjoy our blog posts as we are now proud to announce over 20,000 blog subscribers and over 100,000 monthly visits! .

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

After all, if your business has customers that provide you with a minimal profit margin once you take the cost of serving them into account, the last thing you want to do is erode the margin even further. Then there is the fact that B2B freight providers are deeply indoctrinated into a sales culture based on solid customer relationships.

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Forto

MARCH 17, 2020

In the world of logistics, small and medium-sized logistics companies in particular have already been feeling the effects of the crisis for several weeks: the high production and transport downtime and level of illness in China has led to delays in the worldwide supply chain. every morning, including for all our sites worldwide.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. Another thing we talk about quite often on our blog is how companies often misjudge the needs and preferences of their customers. Transportation management systems (TMS).

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For example, the reverse logistics process includes the management and the sale of surplus as well as returned equipment and machines from the hardware leasing business. Any process or management after the sale of the product involves reverse logistics. Of course, customers may opt to complete a return in-person.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 6, 2017

Editor's Note: Today's blog is by Fergus O'Sullivan with Cloudwars.net. In this mini blog series on, Fergus will teach us about the Internet of Things; What is the Internet of things, how it works, how to use it, and what risks may occur. We say “limited” because they are still just machines, after all. We hope you enjoy.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supply chain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. The impacts are widespread, and, at this stage, it’s impossible to know how much worse things will get.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 24, 2015

There are 230,000 small manufacturing companies in the United States alone, according to a new Infographic from The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Manufacturing Innovation Blog. appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 10, 2017

Of course, the human controlling capacity for actual AI is still far from realistic, but the concept of a superior AI did make strides this year. While much of the conversation on supply chains in 2016 focuses on after manufacturing, it always helps to go back to the beginning. Procurement’s Role Did Become More Important.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 4, 2018

Why would the CEO of Halliburton be receiving a crash course on logistics? The rapid rise in freight costs are finally causing CEOs to pay attention to transportation and logistics issues. And the increased attention means that transportation and supply chain professionals are finding themselves under the microscope.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the first big mistake I want to address in this article, after which I’ll share information about ten other freight management mistakes we commonly see at Logistics Bureau while working with clients on supply chain improvement. 1: The Mistake of Minimalist Freight Management So, what about this minimalist management issue?

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s also the time when I start to think about sharing my thoughts on trends for the coming year , but of course, stop short of trying to make predictions. Ask questions later” approach to multi-channel and omnichannel strategies in their haste to avoid losing sales to ecommerce giants like Amazon.

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Ship Monk

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog we’ll talk about the six main ways your business will benefit from this super team up. This innovative system combines the best parts of rate shopping with transportation management to constantly compare costs and delivery time frames to best meet our ecommerce clients’ needs.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

The pandemic has sent the retail industry on a K-shaped trajectory — the final straw that has sent many retail chains into bankruptcy while also contributing to a surge in sales for many of the leading chains. Of course, during that same period, many retailers performed extremely well. Retail use case No. containerized imports.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Green supply chain management practices can be included in every link of the supply chain from material sourcing and selection, product design, manufacturing processes, product delivery, and even product disposal after the product’s useful life. Of course, cloud-based technology has the added benefit of being accessible from almost anywhere.

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Forto

JANUARY 15, 2020

Because of the increased sales of course. . Entrepreneurs and small business owners are succeeding on Amazon – they sell more than half the products that Amazon customers buy (58 percent in 2018 to be exact) , and more than 140,000 small and medium-sized businesses surpassed 100,000 US-dollar in sales on Amazon annually.”

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friends at Mahan's Thermal Products. This reduces not only the amount of resources being used but also the energy necessary to produce and then transport these goods. Now, you might think this is a good thing – after all; it would be pretty detrimental to drain a natural waterway.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

If products have a longer delivery window they can travel by ground transportation instead of air, which drastically reduces energy waste. To learn more about the benefits and implementation of sustainable supply chain management, you check out our eco-friendly blog focusing on the subject. We hope you do!

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. After all, any professionals job is to do the best job the most cost and time efficiently all while reaching your goals. . And further, that advent of Industry 4.0

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates. ” I had not heard the story of how Greenpeace went after Nestle’s KitKat brand in 2010 over its palm oil sourcing, though each candy bar contains just a minute amount of the oil.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

In June, the OEM outlined a new strategy that includes ambitious targets for electric cars and autonomous vehicles, as well as a rapid rise in the volumes delivered through subscription contracts rather than sales. Of course, Volvo is not alone in these kinds of ambitions. Volvo aims to have 5m direct subscribers by the mid-2020s. .

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Blog on Log

MAY 4, 2010

Shippers and carriers across all transportation modes that have struggled through the Great Recession, suffering billions of dollars in losses and setting back their business by years, are feeling better about the economy and trade environment than at any point in the past two years. The recovery is here, and not a moment’s too soon.

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