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Peak Time or Holiday Shipping: Strategies & Tips to Stay Sane, Mitigate Extra Costs, & Keep Customers Happy

GlobalTranz

We wanted to bring you some quick strategies and tips that can help your holiday shipping woes or at any time of the year where you experience an increase in shipping volumes. Holiday shipping prices for 2014 are pretty similar to what they were last year, only a bit higher. Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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Getting the Full Value Add from 3PL Services by Avoiding Commoditization or Transactionalism

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You will want to gain insight into what differentiates one 3PL from another, what core capabilities they offer and what skills do they have in developing strategies and thought leadership. From this vantage, a strategic 3PL partnership will form a collaboration with your company to fine tune a strategy to meet your needs.

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Value-adding Features of a Great Freight Rating System Within a TMS

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One that is integrated with TMS offers more value for customers and better leverage when negotiating contracts with additional features providing the latest data. The fundamentals of a Freight Rating System match a user’s shipping and freight characteristics and a carrier’s service and price options. Determine the software’s objective.

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Peak Time or Holiday Shipping: Strategies & Tips to Stay Sane, Mitigate Extra Costs, & Keep Customers Happy

GlobalTranz

We wanted to bring you some quick strategies and tips that can help your holiday shipping woes or at any time of the year where you experience an increase in shipping volumes. Holiday shipping prices for 2014 are pretty similar to what they were last year, only a bit higher. Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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11 Best Practices to Ship Parcel Like a Pro

GlobalTranz

These giants have deep pockets, capable of offering low-cost, if not free, parcel shipping. Rather than giving up, shippers need to consider what Amazon and the big box giants have done right and apply these concepts as part of a robust parcel shipping strategy. Negotiate Shipping Rates Like a Pro.

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Real-World Scenario: Best Practices for Warehouse Contracts: Part One

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And our client engages with 3PL by open book cost plus contracts and gain share and pain share incentive. What are the major KPI’s to be followed under the below attributes: Cost or Cost Savings. Use Value Engineering : Reduce the Cost and retain the function of anything. Are new cost Savings methods being investigated?

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

Rapidly rising fuel prices will bring about even more widespread supply chain disruption. The drivers of fuel cost increases include the West’s drive to boycott Russian oil , Russia’s retaliatory steps, such as choking the gas supply to Europe, and increasing challenges connected with supplying oil through Ukrainian pipelines.