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Hazmat Products Shipping Tutorial for Ecommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

But you do need to make sure that everyone has the proper training and certification to handle hazmat products. Everyone from the manufacturer to your warehousing and fulfillment teams, freight and shipping companies, truck drivers and mail carriers, all need to be trained and certified to handle hazardous contents.

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Automated Hand-Scanning Upgrade

Logistics Business Magazine

The automation of hand scanning processes increases productivity at inbound and outbound areas of logistics hubs dramatically. Hand-held barcode readers are still widely used to ensure the traceability of goods and packages, for example in retail, warehousing and parcel sorting operations.

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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

The devices will improve visibility by transmitting data on a real-time basis from each container. Tracking devices from Nexxiot and ORBCOMM are being installed that will provide location data based on GPS, measure temperature, and monitor any sudden shocks to the container. It has so many data points.”.

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Quantum-Powered Solution Tackles Logistics Optimization

Logistics Business Magazine

Unisys Logistics Optimization uses pre-trained models to generate answers to complex queries in seconds. Traditional computational tools would require years to collect and learn from operational data to produce similar results. This represents a substantial leap forward, as this rapid turnaround was not possible previously.

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Express Cargo Sorting

Logistics Business Magazine

About 8% of total volume comes to the cage, with 5700 packages there on average, at any one time. It is equipped with technology from Sick that captures data points via barcode scanning, providing instant updates to the FedEx operations team and the customer receiving the goods. This is the brains of the system,” Cornish informed.

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What is B2B Fulfillment?

Ship Monk

B2B customers typically order less often, and purchase in bulk (think pallets, not packages). A 3PL with B2B capabilities must adhere to strict packaging and labeling requirements unique to each retailer and marketplace, or face a penalty (or refusal of merchandise!) Orders are picked, packed and shipped — just on a larger scale.

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5 Post & Pre-Audit Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring a Provider

TransAudit

In fact, there are a number of fees that can be and are often tacked onto your invoice once the package leaves your facility. Holistic rail, air, ocean, tank, barge, truck, bulk, full-truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL) as well as a review of small packages. And these reports should be easy-to-access and easy to understand.