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. Moreover, how do you determine who can or can’t do what they say they can do? Don’t like our rates?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. It may do, but how do you know? Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise. Step 4: Identify Enabling Technology Needs.

Inventory Reduction 106

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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. Upon closer examination, it became clear that a past sales manager purchased multiple lists to create the database. But be careful.

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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. The term doesn’t directly relate to sales revenue or to profit. Why is this important?

Purchasing Skills 28

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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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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Even if you simplify your product range and your upstream suppliers, you still have to deal with the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements. You then set a sales price for that product. Sales organisation costs. Efficient order terms.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We then followed that with the wildly popular " 7 Strategic Performance Business Practices with 3PL KPIs and 4 KPI Problems to Solve " and shared how to use the S.M.A.R.T. This exercise prompted Whirlpool to question whether having a single logistics provider was the best structure to exceed customer expectations and maximize cost savings.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Vendor Managed Inventory Model : The manufacturer receives electronic data ( usually via EDI or the Internet) that tells him the distributor’s sales and stock levels. The manufacturer can view every item that the distributor carriers as well as true point of sale data. Complete one-on-one meetings. What is Value Analysis?

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

He said port customers and stakeholders were looking for better visibility of their cargo – when it was going to arrive and where it was at any point in the supply chain – and meeting those needs was another way of highlighting the importance of the ports. Drivers go big. Taking out the Nafta countries, there is still a trade imbalance.

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