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The four factors that impact freight trucking revenue and profitability

FreightWaves SONAR

Of course, measuring revenue through the growing demands for both contract and spot freight transportation is never simple addition and subtraction. Leading metrics for tracking overall and market-specific activity include: Inbound and outbound load daily change rates, like the Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) in FreightWaves SONAR.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry. Autoliv is the largest supplier of safety systems to the automotive industry. This is our “supplier board”.

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Industry View: DCs Rise to Meet Unprecedented Challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

Pressing needs and panic buying have created the equivalent to peak season demand in many industries. Of course, businesses normally know when their peak season will occur and they plan for it. The current situation was unexpected, requiring operations to safely ramp up staffing while also maintaining maximum throughput.

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5 Tips for Writing a Transportation Management Plan

GlobalTranz

It is essential in organizing activities in the transportation industry effectively and efficiently. The challenges that the transportation industry faces are enormous. Government regulation that touches on aspects of volume and carriage is another force that’s in play in the industry. Download White Paper.

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What is Inbound Logistics and How Can a 3PL Help?

Kanban Logistics

See, there’s a big difference between handling inbound logistics yourself and outsourcing it to a trusted North Carolina third-party logistics (3PL) provider that knows the manufacturing industry. Inbound logistics refers to the supply chain operations that lead up to the creation of the finished product. What is inbound logistics?

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7 Reasons to Outsource Returns

Ship Monk

You only have to live through it once to realize the negative impact reverse logistics can have on your forward logistics operations. The returns process is every bit as complex and labor intensive as the outbound fulfillment process , but nowhere near as rewarding. Best of all, the merchant only pays for the services they receive.

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Can US ports handle the privileges that American Port Access Privileges Act may bring with it.??

Shipping and Freight Resource

Requiring that export-carrying vessels seeking preferential berthing report cargo bookings at least 7 days in advance to port operators. But if we look a closer look at the volumes, the increase in outbound empty volumes corresponds to the increase in import full volumes as carriers are forced to move out more and more of the empties.