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Consumer Packaged Goods: How CPG Shipping Works

GoShip Blog

Some examples of CPGs are personal hygiene products, food, beverages, and cosmetics. Conditions such as the freight container’s temperatures and the care exercised during loading and unloading are carefully considered when transporting specialty goods. One such example is a Rolls Royce. What is Consumer Packaging?

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Build Resilience in Volatile Freight Environments

FreightWaves SONAR

From a shipper’s perspective, transportation is a cost center, and the exercise of sourcing trucking capacity is not much different than that of procuring raw materials for production. Carrier networks tend to be relatively congruent with national trends.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the obstacles to medium-term demand planning, consider how high-frequency supply chain data can help fill the informational gaps that companies are grappling with, and then look at a real-world example of how the data in FreightWaves SONAR can give insight into the goods economy.

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Finding Your Ecommerce Brand Niche

Ship Monk

A product category like apparel, for example, has too many subcategories to be considered a niche. If you’re already knee deep in design iterations and fulfillment provider RFPs, we hope you’ve already gone through this exercise. Historical Trends: Is this niche growing, holding steady, or heading downhill? What is Not a Niche?

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Drone Operator Wanted: apply within?

Logistics Business Magazine

blog by Tom Viggers, Global Account Director, pymetrics. ” Driving the demand are a number of trends that will bring with them other problems. Autonomous trucks and drones are the 800-pound gorilla in logistics technology trends,” according to Adam Robinson from logistics company, Cerasis. It’s for people.”

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Bundling/Upselling Opportunities For example, some of your products and/or services might have price structures that complement one another, creating opportunities for bundling or upselling. If you haven’t done a segmentation exercise, that would be a positive first step towards understanding customer profitability.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Rise of Enterprise Mobility in Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

this exercise helps retain mobility in the damaged joints". We are referencing, enterprise mobility, as defined by TechTarget's Search Mobile Computing: Enterprise mobility is the trend toward a shift in work habits, with more employees working out of the office and using mobile devices and cloud services to perform business tasks.