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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

If you can only say “No”, I will not be surprised, because many companies have never drilled down into the costs involved in selling specific SKU categories, individual SKUs, or providing particular services connected with those sales, to specific customers or customer categories. And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis.

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Blue Yonder Pivots to a Partnership Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Take the transportation management system (TMS) market, for example. In ARC’s last market study on the global transportation management market , Chris Cunnane, the study author, made estimates of system integration (SI) revenues as a percentage of total TMS revenues for all software companies in the market.

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Home delivery: one size does not fit all

Logistics Business Magazine

One of the key findings of Descartes’ recent study of consumer sentiment of sustainable home delivery practices was that consumers have different delivery expectations when it comes to sustainability. Essentially, the study underscores that a lot of consumers have sustainable delivery personas. Conclusion.

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Finding Your Ecommerce Brand Niche

Ship Monk

In the best-case scenario, your product is so unique that you have that niche all to yourself, but this is rare and usually doesn’t last long. In most cases there are several competitors within the niche, all connected by a common theme. A product category like apparel, for example, has too many subcategories to be considered a niche.

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Are your Customs brokers any good in HS Classification?

Globalior

Our team recently concluded an industry study of Customs broker competency in HS classification. In many of the brokerages included in our study – the average was 1.2 Product knowledge In several cases, brokers admitted to classifying products simply based on the product name appearing on the invoice.

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Importance of Social Proof in Ecommerce

Ship Monk

And when we feel uncertain, humans tend to look for examples of what others in our situation have done. We’ll give you some examples of social proof, and we’ll even rank them in terms of trustworthiness. Humans have a powerful need to fit in with whatever group they’ve joined. What is Social Proof? Low-cut jeans come to mind.)

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Similarly, one can assume that in many cases, businesses that fail do so because of financial problems —a fact that makes the following statistic also worthy of consideration: . . In far too many organisations, this is unfortunately not the case. . Mini Case Study: Walmart. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool.