GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2015

'The phrase “Made in China” embodies cheap labor, the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs, and China’s transformation into one of the world’s economic superpowers. However, it seems the end of the Made in China manufacturing era may be in sight. Labor Costs Driving an End to the Made in China Manufacturing. Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China th

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3PL Insights

JANUARY 5, 2015

'Outsourcing to a 3PL: Top 10 Reasons by Matt Magpantay, Evans Distribution Systems Today’s economy demands that a business be efficient in all manners of its operations. In order to compete with a... The post Outsourcing to a 3PL: Top 10 Reasons appeared first on 3PL Insights - Warehousing, Transportation, and Logistics.

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Apparel Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2015

Here are a few of the best practices in sight for the coming year in logistics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2015

'What is Lean Inventory Management? What techniques are applied to make it successful? More firms are implementing lean inventory management techniques to reduce costs, improve flexibility and have more time to focus on their customers. Lean supply chain and inventory management enable Small Medium Businesses (SMB) to improve efficiency and increase profits.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 6, 2015

'We conclude our “Most Popular” Blog posts series, where we have been giving you the most viewed blog posts in 2014 from our main content categories. We first featured the most popular manufacturing blog posts followed by the top Supply Chain blog posts, then logistics, transportation, business, 3PL, and then finally we round out our series today featuring the most popular blog posts focused on freight and freight management. 2014 was surely a fun year of content on the Cerasis blog.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2015

'We continue our series on the most popular blog posts of 2014 in each of our main categories with our very first post of 2014 by featuring another area important to Cerasis and the industry: third party logistics. As a third party logistics provider (of which there are 46 different types that have been identified) our focus and niche expertise is in transportation management for over the road modes in North America through technology, giving our shippers a TMS, and services for managed transpor

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2015

'Yesterday we had said we concluded our most popular blog posts by category for the blog posts written from our major categories for 2014. However, with most of our customer base in the manufacturing field, with the remaining in distribution and other industries, we thought it was vital that we featured some of the other manufacturing blog posts that were also popular in 2014.

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