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How to Leverage all the Shipping Options at Your Disposal

Food Logistics

Eagerness on both sides – by shippers wanting to cut costs and carriers wanting to fill trailers – has triggered a surge in vitality for a specific transactional arrangement – volume less-than-truckload shipping (volume LTL, or VLTL).

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How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient?

3PL Links

Image source: Rawpixel.com | How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient? This discussion centers on practical tactics for enhancing reverse packaging logistics, an insightful method for effectively repurposing spent materials back into the manufacturing process.

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How to Use Data to Fuel Your Retail Reverse Logistics Strategy

GlobalTranz

How often do you think about your retail reverse logistics strategy? It’s easy to assume retail reverse logistics is solely based on returns. While this is partially true, all retail reverse logistics involve a backward flow of products that return to their origin. Faster time to resolution for returned items.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 27 – May 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Hawaiian Airlines has commenced operating a second Airbus A330-300 cargo jet for Amazon on a new route between New York’s JFK airport and the company’s West Coast air logistics hub in San Bernardino, California, the company reported. and Canadian stores. That’s all for this week.

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Ecommerce Returns – How to Stay Ahead of Reverse Logistics

Ship Monk

Anyone who owns an ecommerce brand has unwittingly been through a crash course in ecommerce logistics. Forward logistics, or the process of moving a product through the supply chain from the manufacturer to the end customer, is a process most startups don’t worry about until it becomes a problem. But what about reverse logistics?

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How to Protect Supply Chain from Cyber Attacks

3PL Links

Image source: Flickr | How to Protect Supply Chain from Cyber Attacks The management of data intelligence in the supply chain presents an enormous challenge to those involved. The amount, velocity, and sharing of data all influence how it is received and evaluated, and these changes intensify with the consolidation of digital transformation.

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Revealing the Realm of Reverse Logistics

Ship Monk

In ecommerce, we spend a lot of time talking about logistics. ShipMonk does too; after all, we are a 3PL third-party logistics provider. Here, the process of reverse logistics gets started. The term “reverse logistics” on its own can be a bit confusing, so we’re taking the complexity out of this aspect of logistics for you.