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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible?

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

CLX Logistics

For suppliers and mid- to large-sized companies, supply chain visibility serves as the foundation for strategic decisions and tactical improvements across the entire transportation network. Much like any other strategic initiative or company-wide process change, leadership must start with the end in mind.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

The club also organizes a roundtable event each semester that brings students and companies together to explore opportunities for internships and jobs. We find that a skill set in another discipline gives students a competitive advantage because it can enhance how they practice logistics and supply chain management.

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Cultivate a Stickier Customer Base Using WMS Add-On Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

This article explores two such ways modern digital tools can elevate the performance of 3PLs on the way to creating stickier customers. Where customers gain the ability to make informed decisions based on improved visibility into their inventory, 3PLs can reduce their cost of service, while simultaneously enhancing productivity and profits.

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Battling a perfect storm

Automotive Logistics

In addition, the Port Conveyance Program transfers surplus federal land to states and local governments at no cost for use as a port facility. The port of Long Beach has since adopted it and the tool is available to other ports, according to Nagle. Trucking a vehicle over 2,000 miles can also result in elevated damage costs.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

So that’s the route we’re taking in this article, exploring the evolution of fleet route optimisation from a time-consuming pen-and-paper exercise to a high-tech process that, in some cases, can be completed in minutes. I guess that’s why we called it route planning and not route optimisation.” Book a free consultation.