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Creating a Successful Small Business Shipping Strategy

GoShip Blog

A shipping strategy is not as high of a priority for small business owners as it should be. Creating a working and suitable shipping strategy is key to satisfying your customers and boosting your business performance. How do you create a small business shipping strategy? Go omnichannel. Use shipping technology.

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Top 10 Features of an Autonomous Warehouse

3PL Insights

Driver Scanning: Driver scanning software can be fluidly integrated with your warehouse system—already, truckers can easily scan and send documents and integrate with logistics systems and apps. Documents can be routed to multiple departments, integrated with dispatch, billing, TMS, and other document management systems.

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10 Challenges for Shippers in Negotiating Trucking Contracts

FreightWaves SONAR

Transportation analytics is among the most effective tools in trucking contract negotiations. Disruption is, by definition, unplanned. Taking this action amounts to a more proactive, productive shipping strategy. Trucking contracts are not a fast-paced document. Annual contracts are not disruption-proof from inception.

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Warehouse 5S: The Ultimate Guide [FREE 5S Checklist Inside!]

Conger

Warehouse 5S is a lean management strategy that helps warehouses accomplish a basic objective: making problems visible. For example, it avoids clutter, needless stock build-ups, tools and products on the way, wasted time looking for parts, and the creation of safety hazards. Let's first define the meaning of warehouse 5S.

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Stuck on the wrong side of the world but still needing to deliver food to people in Ethiopia 5,000…

World Food Programme Logistics

What tools are important for you now? Well, ordinarily my WFP laptop would be my main tool but I left it in Ethiopia when I came on what should have been a short trip home. It’s definitely a relief that we’re all together in one place right now. What tools are important for you now? What’s good about being back in Nepal?

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9 Steps to Follow When Preparing for Supply Chain Project Management

Logistics Bureau

So involve all key project stakeholders in the scope definition task and provide ample opportunities to highlight and deliberate over deliverables they believe are missing and should be added. Next step: Using your project scope document as a guide, list all the deliverables your project will generate. Now, this is a big one.

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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

Logistics Bureau

The ecommerce logistics practitioner must instead integrate reverse logistics into his or her company’s inventory management strategies and processes. Managing SKU Proliferation The seismic shift towards ecommerce and associated multichannel sales strategies has led to a rapid rise in the number of SKUs that companies carry.