Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Perfect order results can help you assess performance and diagnose issues impacting service, costs, and overall supply chain effectiveness. As an example of how illuminating the perfect order KPI can be, let’s look briefly at damage-free delivery as an example. Calculating the Perfect Order. x 0.96 = 0.8661.

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Freight Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

When shipping items under 70 lbs, parcel shipping is typically the most cost-effective shipping method. To take advantage of FreightCenter’s negotiated rates and see how much it will cost to send your shipment, use our easy freight quote tool to compare rates now. Understanding Weight Density and Shipping Costs.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

That has also increased the pressure on retailers to keep other freight and logistics costs low with more capital and expense being dedicated to the development of new omnichannel strategies. . Using SONAR data in contract negotiations with carriers and 3PLs. . Inflation in the prices of goods. Inflation in freight costs.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This blog examines the “red” times, like the roughly three-month period we have just entered that is historically one of the regular disruptors in the ocean freight market. Vince brings extensive experience and knowledge in carrier rate and contract negotiations, RFQ management, and transpacific ocean business.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

I’m talking about enterprises that leave their interactions with freight carriers to one or two people with little or no logistics knowledge or experience because freight and logistics are not core competencies. The answer is that the approach could cost your company vast sums of money in unnecessary logistics costs.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. More Resources Home Bridging Two Realms: The Digital-Analog Dance in Logistics Ian Arroyo Unbox your Freight knowledge. So we can’t just herald the digital era without embracing the historical analog functions.

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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. Rapidly rising fuel prices will bring about even more widespread supply chain disruption.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you follow our blog, you’ll know that we often post articles about logistics outsourcing. For example, it either makes sense to outsource logistics activity to a 3PL, or it makes more sense to keep it in-house. When Cost is Not an Appropriate Reason to Insource or Outsource.

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Freightos

JANUARY 25, 2024

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Name This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. This has real implications that are particularly clear during crises like the Red Sea crisis, where it becomes hard for customers to get real-time visibility into prices, capacity and visibility in real-time….even

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 25, 2022

What are the essential skills you need to possess or develop if you want to become one of tomorrow’s supply chain leaders? In any case, an excellent place to start is by knowing what the most vital supply chain leaders’ skills are and, of course, why you need them. Information Technology and Automation Knowledge.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 14, 2020

What are the essential skills you need to possess or develop if you want to become one of tomorrow’s supply chain leaders? In any case, an excellent place to start is by knowing what the most vital supply chain leaders’ skills are and, of course, why you need them. Information Technology and Automation Knowledge.

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Freightos

MARCH 27, 2024

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Phone This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Robert Gates, the former CIA Director, remarked that “global dangers are at a level we haven’t seen since the end of World War 2.”

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

As for the impact of tariff actions on supply chains and consumers, the feedback has largely been that they will raise prices and do more harm than good at the end of the day to be sure. For example, the United States exports automotive parts to Mexico to be assembled into cars. stand to gain tremendously by coming to good terms.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 2, 2018

Aside from whatever the ramifications of a true trade war would look like, there is, of course, the fall out, or trickle down, impact on what this could mean for consumer spending i.e. the real lifeblood of economic activity, more so than any other economic drive. It’s easy!”. But that does not make it true simply because he says so. “A

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2015

Yet, many politicians, economic analysts, and skilled workers continue a call to arms to save the stereotypes of an archaic manufacturing industry. Then, it all appeared to slowly die out over the course of the next 50 years. Consider our example from this blog post.

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