FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Most freight brokers have to source their own freight broker leads. Here are six tips for sourcing freight broker leads that will minimize the time and resources required to source and research shipper leads. . 6 Tips to source freight broker leads. #1: One challenge comes from the term “shippers.” 3: Conference agendas.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This week, learn how freight market participants are able to measure if freight pricing control lays in the hands of freight shippers or freight carriers. What is the DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index? The chart above has an 80 reading which indicates that the control of freight pricing lies in the carriers’ hands.

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GoShip Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

of online shoppers expect cost-effective or free and fast delivery of goods. When it comes to shipping freight, business owners need to know their margins when estimating and analyzing shipping prices. Use a shipping cost calculator to help you save time and continue gaining profits in this highly competitive market.

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Locus

JUNE 16, 2023

Say you purchase your coveted gadget online, eagerly tracking its journey from warehouse to your welcoming hands. Customer satisfaction and keeping costs in check rests on optimal last-mile delivery operations. Naturally, the costs of meeting such expectations, especially on the delivery front are also increasing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services. This approach results in inefficiencies, higher costs, and missed opportunities. These costs fall within the “Cost of Goods Sold” components of the company’s financial statement.

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EazyStock

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This year, purchasing teams are also facing continued challenges due to global supply chain and logistics pressures, component shortages, and soaring prices for electricity and fuel. The key is to keep track of your inventory planning and purchasing processes. Successful sales during this period come down to many factors.

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EazyStock

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This year, purchasing teams are also facing continued challenges due to global supply chain and logistics pressures, component shortages, and soaring prices for electricity and fuel. The key is to keep track of your inventory planning and purchasing processes. Successful sales during this period come down to many factors.

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Envase Technologies

APRIL 6, 2022

The transport industry is always looking for ways to mitigate the impact of fuel costs. Even when costs are low, this is an issue. But it’s not just the per-gallon cost. Without an effective tool to manage both the cost of fuel and the unpredictability of fuel surcharges, transport professionals are at a distinct disadvantage.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

Source: Statista.com. Transportation was redirected to be used in providing first aid, leading to supply chain bottlenecks, shortages and price hikes. This was followed by heavy rainfall that flooded which caused lumber companies to scale back production, leading to a rise in the prices of wooden products in the United States.

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GoShip Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

Running a business means making tough decisions like creating the company budget or raising prices for your services. They can practically raise their prices almost any time and few people will complain. Price changes can affect your customer retention, and if you’re in an overly saturated market? Getting Competitive.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

On this blog and the one published by our sister company Logistics Bureau, we often receive questions relating to metrics suitable for monitoring procurement performance. Competitiveness of Pricing. The price you pay your vendors for their products is a significant factor in your company’s ability to compete in its market.

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GoShip Blog

MAY 26, 2022

Fuel is one of the major driving forces in the economy, so a price change will cause economic ripple effects far from the gas pump. Businesses of all sizes require fuel and are, therefore, affected by an increase or decrease in its price. Why do fuel prices fluctuate? What rising fuel prices mean for your small business.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Housing starts are calling for lumber kits, industrial purchasers are ordering products for their projects, and construction companies are planning their moves and strategies for the year. Finance, sales and purchasing teams can think more clearly about the state of the industry and how to align their strategies accordingly.

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GoShip Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

There are several shipping pricing methods for e-commerce businesses–each with its strengths and weaknesses. Flat-rate shipping is a pricing method where the shipping fee depends on the size of the box or envelope rather than the item’s dimensional weight. Pros and Cons of Flat-Rate Shipping Method. Pros of Flat-Rate Shipping.

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Locus

MARCH 27, 2024

But here’s the kicker for retailers: amidst all this chaos, they’ve got to keep their delivery costs lean without compromising on giving customers a smooth and enjoyable experience. This situation demands not just managing costs but also turning the returns process into a positive touchpoint with customers.

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Dedola Global Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Importers like to minimize their shipping costs, and that’s understandable. Companies expect their purchasing or logistics managers to find the best available rates. They return to our service once they realize that the hard and soft cost of inferior service erases any savings, often resulting in a significant hit to the bottom line.

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WorkWave

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

While some business ventures require entrepreneurs to have advanced degrees or a large amount of capital to cover startup costs, that is not always the case. If you are a creative person with skills such as video production, photography, or writing, then you can create a home-based business working in content creation or digital marketing.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 16, 2022

Esther is the Chief Revenue Officer at Flowspace , an ecommerce fulfillment platform that helps brands meet their customers’ post-purchase expectations. Flowspace is an ecommerce fulfillment platform that helps brands meet their customers’ post-purchase expectations. Flowspace Blog. About Esther Kestenbaum Prozan.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This wouldn’t be an ecommerce blog if we didn’t talk about Amazon. Just hop on board the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) bus, and you can outsource all the post-purchase headaches that come with running an ecommerce business. Inventory storage, fulfillment, and shipping costs are borne by the seller or paid to a 3PL.

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Parade

JANUARY 20, 2022

That’s not to say that it doesn’t take time to get to the point where you can use a purchased software in operations; it takes time to implement, integrate, test, and train staff to work with new programs. With software, that overrun can be costly, , according to McKinsey. In-house builds have no such luxury.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This blog will review how category managers and supply planners can use cluster analysis to make smarter decisions and grow sales. ABC analysis creates product segments by grouping products with similar sales volume or purchase frequency to enable category managers to focus on what matters most. The retail industry is rich with data.

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Ship Monk

JULY 19, 2022

Running an eCommerce business forces you to become an expert at a lot of things, but estimating shipping costs isn’t the best way to spend your time. Factors That Determine Shipping Costs. Optional or unexpected services as well as carrier surcharges might add to the cost. Dimensional Weight . Delivery Times. Value of Contents.

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Locus

MAY 2, 2023

When they first began their journey, the greatest challenge was gaining the trust of consumers, who were used to visiting their local grocery store and largely preferred to check their groceries first-hand before purchasing them. To date, it has also been able to reduce its delivery costs by 66%.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Despite record layoffs in many industries, Canadian manufacturers face a skills shortage in key positions in operations and across the supply chain. All of the above pressures culminate in rising operational costs – from ?labor, Talent gaps: ? One of the key drivers is the aging workforce leaving for retirement. Stay Agile, Get Ahead.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When a coach in sports picks their team for an upcoming game, they need to make critical decisions, putting the right players and their respective set of skills in the right place at the right time. They give players a job to do that contributes to the overall success of their objective.

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EazyStock

APRIL 18, 2023

In this blog, we focus on how supply chain and inventory management professionals can mitigate the impact of high inflation and interest rates. High inflation rates are seeing price increases for everything from products and components to commodities and utilities, creating a global cost of living crisis. in 2023 and 4.3%

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Operational costs continue to increase for carriers year to year. Although many carriers have worked diligently towards reducing operational costs and increasing profit margins, there is still work to do for the top for-hire truckload freight carriers to improve. The formula is operating costs/operating revenue. Operating Ratio.

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EazyStock

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Maintaining cost-effective inventory levels is critical for any manufacturer, wholesaler, supplier or retailer. What are inventory carrying costs? Inventory carrying costs (or inventory holding costs) refer to the overall expenses associated with holding or carrying items of inventory. Capital costs. Capital costs.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 2, 2024

We are starting to see document recognition services in AI which automate tasks such as invoicing, purchase orders and bank reconciliations. Network infrastructure is a commodity that can be accessed at a lower cost and legacy skill sets are becoming obsolete, making the cloud increasingly attractive.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 7, 2024

BlueGrace heralds acquisition of Evos Smart Tools Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - March 7, 2024 Jeff Berman | Logistics Management March 7, 2024 Tampa, Fla.-based A purchase price for the transaction was not disclosed.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 7, 2023

In one of my previous blogs, “The Importance of Building a Business Case for ERP,” we looked at the significance of strategic planning and creating a solid business case before embarking on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation journey. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In such cases, it’s hard to align the team around a common source of truth. To make matters more complex, different departments also used their own method for estimating product costs. They had no centralized purchasing process. This resulted in high inventory volatility and unnecessarily high distribution costs.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This week, learn how freight market participants, especially trucking carriers , rely on both the Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Rack (ULSDR) data index and the FUELS index to measure diesel fuel price volatility and to understand its impact on their operations and the freight market at large. The local price is an average of those various prices.

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Kuebix

JULY 28, 2020

shopping for 2 weeks at a time instead of 1) and purchasing products such as toilet paper, paper towels and disinfectant wipes in bulk. Practicing new skills […]. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in food shoppers buying supplies for a longer period of time (ex.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We continue our top blog posts of 2014 from our main categories today by focusing on something at Cerasis we are experts in : Logistics. We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supply chain blog posts last week. Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014. Read the Full Post.

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GoShip Blog

APRIL 8, 2022

To successfully manage a small business, be sure to calculate the actual costs of running a business. Too often, small businesses won’t consider the hidden costs of loans, licenses and legal paperwork, insurance, office and retail space, and employee benefits. This article highlights the top 5 hidden costs of running a small business.

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EazyStock

AUGUST 21, 2020

However, holding too much can have a number of negative implications, such as high carrying costs , over-investment in stock and poor cash flow. What are the potential cost savings from inventory reduction? Instead, here are five strategic inventory reduction methods that are certain to drive cost savings.

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