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Körber Elevate 2024: Chart Your Course

Logistics Viewpoints

The theme this year was “Chart Your Course” which Richard Stewart, EVP Americas at Körber Supply Chain pointed out, is all about overcoming supply chain complexities and challenges. Workforce Planning : this allows for a company to forecast order and task volumes to predict labor requirements and optimize workforce planning.

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Omnichannel Retailers Leverage Optimization for Order-Promising

Logistics Viewpoints

A customer can of course buy goods in a store. They can also order online and have goods shipped to their home. Or they can order online and pick up the product at the store. An omnichannel order management system helps companies meet growing customer expectations. Rules were used to make these decisions.

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The Free TMS with Tim Higham

The Logistics of Logistics

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. Prior to starting AscendTMS, Tim co-founded and ran a national 3PL, where he invited Palm Beach Capital LLC to become minority equity shareholder in July, 2009 in order to speed both internal growth and outside acquisitions. AscendTMS).

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8 Ways to Improve Ecommerce Order Cycle Time

Ship Monk

When it comes to ecommerce order fulfillment, two of the most important operational factors are speed and accuracy. Whether you manage your own fulfillment operations or partner with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) , it’s all about getting orders picked accurately and out the door on time. What is Order Cycle Time?

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Volvo Receives Order for 1,000 Electric Trucks

Logistics Business Magazine

The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks, and the first 130 trucks will be delivered in 2023 and 2024. Now the company and its contractors have, with Volvo Trucks, agreed to plan for the deployment of 1,000 electric trucks across Holcim’s operations in Europe over the course of the next seven years.

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Ecommerce Order Tracking: It’s More Than A Number

Ship Monk

You can carefully manage your inventory, you can utilize digital warehousing and advanced order management software to improve the fulfillment process, and you can sweeten the unboxing experience with branded packaging and personalized inserts. Ecommerce order tracking starts the moment the order is placed and ends in successful delivery.

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Meet ShipMonk’s New CEO Josh McCarter

Ship Monk

As an entrepreneur myself, I know what it’s like to go from assembling a desk, installing a computer network, then jumping on a customer call or being in the warehouse and packing an order. Customer expectations are changing and this requires everyone in the ecommerce value chain to adapt in order to survive and thrive.