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Successfully Fulfill Your Crowdfunding/Kickstarter Campaign

Ottawa Logistics

A 2016 study by 3PLstudy.com showed that 83% of 3PL respondents felt that using a logistics partner directly contributed to better relationships with their clients and 70% reported declining logistics costs. Study participants represented manufacturing, retail, food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, and other industries.

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Dock Delays and Detention are a Big Issue

Trinity Logistics

In this blog, we’ll dive into what truck detention is, why it happens, how it impacts truck drivers and shippers, and how shippers can help reduce dock delays and detention. Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed reported waiting for longer than two hours on each load. As a result, demand for truck capacity and rates remain elevated.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Nexant received about 200 survey responses from compounders, fabricators, equipment suppliers and toolers.

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Back to Basics in 2007 - 3PL Defined

Blog on Log

One of today's trends to solve this problem is outsourcing logistics or using third-party logistics (3PL) to manage complex distribution requirements. Levels of Outsourcing • Transactional: Based on transactions, with no long term contracts and no bonding between the 3PL and the outsourcing company. Exel is one of them.

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Supply Chain Management:The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Outsourcing Services. Application Outsourcing. Infrastructure Outsourcing. Business Process Outsourcing. View all Infosys blogs. Case Studies. |. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Procurement Blog.

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Supply Chain Management:Retailer Multi-Channel Operations.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Outsourcing Services. Application Outsourcing. Infrastructure Outsourcing. Business Process Outsourcing. View all Infosys blogs. Case Studies. |. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Procurement Blog.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Today, global supply chains are incredibly complex, with myriad suppliers both direct and indirect, lots of outsourcing and many companies touching just a piece of the process, many middlemen and more. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net. Who can really get control of that is the question.