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How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping

Dedola Global Logistics

For instance, things like fuel prices, hourly wages for employees, and materials are some hard costs. Soft costs are usually time-consuming tasks such as planning, tracking shipments, gathering documents, handling disputes, and handling communication with your freight forwarder and over-seas suppliers.

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How to Win During Peak Shipping Season

Logistics Business Magazine

This article by SHIPSTA addresses six of the most common challenges that can surface in peak shipping season, while providing solutions on how to best address them. Take a closer look at SHIPSTA to see how its platform and services can help you both during and outside the peak shipping seasons.

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How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping

Dedola Global Logistics

How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping. For instance, things like fuel prices, hourly wages for employees, and materials are some hard costs. How can importers and exporters reduce soft costs? The post How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping appeared first on Dedola Global Logistics. The Dedola Difference. Contact Us.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. How procurement handles itself and its activities set the tone for all the events that follow, right up to the final delivery of goods and services to the end-customer.

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Easy Understanding of Bill of Lading

20Cube Logistics

Here, we look at BoL in a more descriptive perspective including why it’s important, its content and how to properly use it for safe shipping and tracking purposes. Bill of Lading is a shipping document and has a record of all the items that are being shipped from a supplier to a receiver through a freight forwarder.

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How to Reduce Lead Times: 11 Tips for Manufacturers & Warehouses

Conger

Ditch Unreliable Suppliers. Choose Domestic Suppliers. Consolidate Suppliers. Ditch Unreliable Suppliers. Three key problems are associated with unreliable suppliers: Quoting incorrect lead times. Ditch unreliable suppliers and find new, more reliable ones. Choose Domestic Suppliers. Let's dive in!

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The Freight Forwarder’s Era: The Top Advantages of Working with a Freight Forwarder

MTS Logistics

Expertise of Freight Forwarders Freight forwarders are well-versed in the knowledge of how to handle the customs regulations and documentation for your international shipments. How is this an advantage you may be thinking, since the customer can go and work with the carrier directly, right?