GoShip Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Off course, if you’re shipping internationally, there are even more costs to consider. As an online retailer, it is vital that you understand all the different packaging materials out there and how to use them to protect your products from damage. Tips on How to Calculate Your Shipping and Handling Costs.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If university study is a little beyond you right now, one of the certification courses might work better for you. These include the following: Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM): The course is designed to recognise those who have acquired an acceptable level of training, skills, work experience, and effectiveness as a Professional Manager.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This is usually a three to six month process and may be part of a larger corporate strategy or transformation process that it has to plug into. Once you have agreement on objectives, the next step is to match those objectives with prospective vendors. How well do the vendors communicate with you?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

Understanding the nuances of your supply chain and how to improve upon it is the best way to achieve maximum savings, optimize efficiency, and manage customer expectations. Of course, the first step in this process is often the most daunting. Enhanced control over shipment scheduling. Putting it into Action.

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3PL Links

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Improving your warehouse and distribution process isn’t necessarily as easy as it might sound since any course of action needs to take into account variables such as your products, staffing levels, scheduling and third-party vendors. Set Vendor Policies. If you continue to do this, you will reduce the risk of complacency.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2023

Of course, there is one more essential requisite for any supply chain project to commence—a budget. However, to eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, the likelihood of scope creep setting in, you need next to focus directly on that element of the project. How to Nail Down the Project Scope.

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Camelot 3PL Software

APRIL 3, 2019

We will now delve into HOW to successfully implement, and identify several key success factors for every project. You will discuss these goals with vendors, who take notes, but these conversations are generally much higher-level than the detail in which the Project Team will get during implementation. QA and User testing.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 28, 2015

Today’s post is a guest post from Nicholas Fincher of CS-Cart about how 5 areas of focus can bring back the focus on the customer by personalized their online shopping experience. These are but extensions of the idea to maximize omni- channel strategies by putting the customer at the heart of the supply chain. .

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 8, 2021

The actual test of how well a route optimization system is applied is not creating the shortest line between point A and point B, but how quickly it can adjust and respond to alerts, disruptions and problems. Reasonable rates and service packages can help improve vendor relationships and boost route optimization.

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

From our daily engagement (and years of deep industry experience), these are some of the issues that should prove most impactful this year, and some ideas on how to overcome some of those challenges. For example, the price of 42# linerboard has gone up 35% in the last 12 months, over the course of 4-5 price increases.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

As a supply chain director, manager, or boss of a multinational corporation, where the supply chain is an integral part of your business, supply chain cost reductions are always at the forefront of your team’s mind. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. What is Reverse Marketing?

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

In addition to satisfying conscientious consumer demand, eco-friendly efforts can benefit your ecommerce business by reducing waste within your company and improving operational efficiencies. Translation: these ecommerce businesses have operating standards that minimize or reduce negative impact on the planet.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2018

The emergence of cloud-based platforms and Big Data increases forecast accuracy, eliminates unnecessary stock, and achieves truly optimized slotting designs. Big Data can analyze picking performance and identify best practices to increase performance, effectively reducing the amount of on-hand inventory needed at any given time.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2019

Addressing Capacity Woes, Use of Last Mile & How to Choose the Right LTL Carrier. LTL Will Attract More Talent and Drivers Since the focus on reducing the capacity crunch lies in addressing the driver shortage, the simplest solution will be attracting more drivers. The Evolution of LTL Shipping Practices. Download WhitePaper.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Before we look at the barriers to optimal inventory and the possible ways to eliminate or overcome them, let’s be clear on what inventory optimisation means—because misconceptions do abound. At this point, perhaps you’re wondering if we’re suggesting you reduce your service levels to lower the amount of inventory you hold.

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Locus

MARCH 13, 2024

Out for Delivery – How to Adhere to timelines? Now with an outsourced fleet, retailers cannot track the performance of these carriers and have to rely on whatever the third party tells them and of course time of delivery. Implementing smart last mile solutions that offer robust tracking is key to delightful customer experience.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“How do I make work a game?” This could reduce absenteeism and increase retention rates. How to go higher, more vertical is one. most vendors have a variation in travel time. How does software make humans work better? AI, of course, is high on the agenda. Elliott said. “If The space above 2m is under-used.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Long Haul (over 800 miles) The long haul runs are also affected by the ELD mandate, of course, but many carriers operating these runs were already in compliance. . Shippers should internally ask questions like, which vendors are costing more money than they’re worth? Are we losing money with this a specific vendor?

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 19, 2020

To bee or not to bee How a Kyrgyzstan farmer who dreamed of making money from honey beelined for a World Food Programme training course ‘Bee master’: Ryskulbek, from the village of Bash-Kuugandy, gained beekeeping skills with WFP. Ryskulbek learned how to build an apiary, how to take care of bees and how to effectively store the honey.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We will feature over the next 4 business days each category's most viewed posts over the course of 2017. This will reduce redundancy and increase productivity. Broad changes in the marketability and use of warehouse management technologies have led to an immeasurable number of vendors in the market. Share This: Read More.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 11, 2020

Of course, additional disruption risks remain. How to Lessen the Impact of the Coronavirus. Also, do not cut your shipping volume due to the coronavirus. Find out more about how to get started by completing the form below or call us at 800.MY.SHIPPING Let’s be clear on one area of concern. MY.SHIPPING today.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2019

and how to use them to create healthy diets. I learnt how to cook from my father. I am also very interested in preserving the green environment through the reduction of food waste. As a waiter, you were guaranteed at least one course meal. I enjoy researching about food. I am a geologist. But I found I was not fulfilled.

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WorkWave

AUGUST 21, 2021

With proper organizational management in place, it is easy to see where money is lost and improvements are needed to help reduce costs. One of the most significant advantages of fleet vehicle management is how it will save the company time. Obtaining Corporate Discounts on Supplies from Third-Party Vendors for Bulk Orders.

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Women in Trucking

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

You have to deal with all kinds of personalities at any given time, you see things that are broken but lack the resources or influence to fix them, and, often, people who don’t understand your work are there to tell you how to do it. A self-aware employeemonitors reactions and considers how their words and actions affect everyone else.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible? The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. As a result, you will be able to set target rates for vendors and ensure you don’t pay more than is reasonable for shipments along a given lane. Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

To pull off logistics effectively, it takes a lot of expert planning, assembling the right mix of people, communication, working together, and of course, if something goes wrong, contingency planning. Do you know what carriers you can choose and generally know how much they cost ? Like Thanksgiving, Logistics is no simple undertaking.

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Ship Monk

JULY 12, 2023

We sat down with Josh at ShipMonk HQ to discuss the future of ShipMonk, how to best help our clients reach their ideal ecommerce landscape, and for his thoughts on whether or not Budd is pulling his weight as “Head Monk of Fulfillment Services”. ShipMonk checks all of these boxes and more. to keep everyone connected and updated.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. My courses change from year to year based on industry events and trends.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

The trick, of course, is how to make S&OP more effective, and thus more beneficial to managers in the trenches. They also need to consider how to provide insights to S&OP teams about issues like inventory policies, or item/SKU stocking strategies that, when incorporated into plans, set the stage for success.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 20, 2019

When I talk to worldwide businesses in Asia, Oceania, North America, or anywhere else, their chief concern is always the same: how do we meet our customers where they are to get them the products and services they want, all while keeping our own business strategy central? Purchase order and vendor supervision.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Omnichannel is a centralized strategy that enables businesses to coordinate, streamline, simplify and speed up fulfillment of orders that have been placed through different channels (online, retail, etc.). It is making use of inventory that is the easiest/fastest to get to the customer, no matter through which channel the order was placed.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. The first post covered how you can get the DC or warehouse ready for the holidays or peak seasons. . Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 14, 2021

Of course, the criticality of such elements is the same now as it always was. Those withstanding the supply chain turmoil were the ones with solid risk mitigation strategies and playbooks in place and investment already sunk into supply chain resilience. Prudent implementation of buffer inventories and process-redundancy measures.

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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. Customer behaviour.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Editor's Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. The first post covered how you can get the DC or warehouse ready for the holidays or peak seasons. . Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 6, 2018

Of course, that would be hard to do if the business in question needs to pile on costs just in order to increase its market share. Getting this right to maximize your transportation strategy is a balancing act—regardless of the mode or modes of shipping. How economies of scale affect that balancing act is the subject of this article.

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