Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2022

Andy is the Founder and CEO of Bahr Transportation , a FTL brokerage, focused primarily on serving the food & beverage industry, in the USA & Canada. Andy Bahr is the Founder and President of Bahr Transportation , a FTL brokerage focused primarily on serving the food & beverage industry, in refrigerated freight.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We call it the probability of a perfect order. Order Entry Accuracy. One thing you should be measuring is your order entry accuracy. You’re taking telephone orders, you’re taking EDI orders, web orders. In whatever way those orders are coming in, are they being entered into your systems accurately?

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For example, retailers are investing in digital platforms to reach consumers dispersed over a vast land mass while responding to competition from global e-tailers. Canadian consumers increasingly rely upon the internet to place orders,” ITA says. A Fresh Take on E-fulfillment.

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Trinity Logistics

MAY 3, 2023

However, transporting stone can be a difficult task for many reasons. If you’re a shipper handling stone material, bookmark this guide for all you need to know about stone transport. PACKING FOR STONE TRANSPORT Proper packing and packaging materials are very important for stone transport.

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Locus

JUNE 23, 2023

This McCordsville fulfillment center is the largest fulfillment center of Walmart and will enable them to fulfill more orders quickly. We regularly or infrequently see more headlines of various companies investing in order fulfillment operations. What is Order fulfillment? Why is order fulfillment important?

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 18, 2021

Vetting 3PLs and transportation management services providers is a complex topic and shippers may not know where to begin. To find the right logistics transportation services partner for your unique business needs, shippers should consider these five crucial characteristics. . Focus on Carrier Procurement and Management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For example, most people expect free next-day delivery for online purchases as a result of Amazon Prime. More and more retailers are giving consumers choices for how they want an order delivered, and part of this is to show the environmental impact of the option that they choose.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Those promises include accurate order fulfillment and on-time delivery. A reshipment is the process of fulfilling and shipping an ecommerce order a second time because the first order was damaged, lost in transit, or contained the wrong items. Order Tracking. But what happens when something goes wrong?

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GoShip Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In logistics, labor shortage puts a strain on the supply chain, making it difficult for businesses to fulfill orders. This includes receiving and storing inventory, sorting orders, picking, packing, researching courier availability, and managing returns. Order Fulfillment & Delayed Shipments, Higher Costs .

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Uber Freight is a major provider of managed transportation services. If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. Proving OTIF Remains Difficult Many consumer goods suppliers have implemented real-time transportation visibility solutions. Proving that it arrived in-full is.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When e-commerce orders picked up during the early stages of the global pandemic, demand for trucking skyrocketed right at a time when COVID-19 shutdowns and a preexisting driver shortage were already impacting available capacity and rates. The post Land Transport Outlook for the Year Ahead appeared first on DB Schenker.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Rather than just offering consumers the choice of buying online or buying in the store, a retail omnichannel strategy involves a lot more paths to fulfill an order or to process a return. As a result of this, the market for omnichannel order management (OOM) systems grew briskly. Then came Covid. Shipping from the store, and 5.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Executing a Perfect Order is Difficult! According to Mike Carroll, a vice president at Georgia-Pacific, “In creating a more seamless order management process, we needed a capability that enabled us to navigate the complexities of the myriad of individual orders that we receive every minute, hour, and day, with unparalleled precision.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If not managed properly, your transportation can cost you substantial money. With costs rising recently, it’s easy to see why the challenge for many companies has been to reduce their transportation costs. Before we jump into how to reduce your transportation costs, it’s essential to understand what factors are causing them to rise.

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Now, That's Logistics

APRIL 13, 2021

Behind the scenes, the companies fulfilling all of those online orders had to make some quick pivots in order to accommodate the unpredictable shifts in buying behaviors. That choice these companies make dictates their logistics, fulfillment, and transportation strategies,” Largeau points out. Another Banner Year Ahead.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

Examples of Supply Chain Robots at MODEX 2024 Several exhibitors at MODEX 2024 showcased their innovative solutions for supply chain robotics, demonstrating the diversity and potential of this field. Here are some of the examples that caught our attention.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2023

Skaraslättens Transport is Sweden’s biggest provider of container transport on the roads, hauling 850-900 containers daily to all Swedish container ports. With that in mind, this was a pretty easy decision to make,” says Johan Söderström, CCO at Skaraslättens Transport. Climate-smart – but an economic challenge.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

Example: a bicycle is more eco-friendly than a sedan, but a sedan is more eco-friendly than a Hummer. Eco-Friendly Packaging and Shipping Materials Packaging and shipping materials are a vital part of every ecommerce order, especially considering how many packages need to travel great distances.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

Example: a bicycle is more eco-friendly than a sedan, but a sedan is more eco-friendly than a Hummer. Eco-Friendly Packaging and Shipping Materials Packaging and shipping materials are a vital part of every ecommerce order, especially considering how many packages need to travel great distances.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 25, 2024

Last-mile delivery refers to the last leg of an ecommerce order’s journey. An item has been purchased online, your 3PL has processed the order and sent instructions to the appropriate fulfillment center, and following the picking, packing, and shipping, the package is now on the final phase of its route.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Pinnacle Propane implemented demand management, replenishment, and order promising solutions from John Galt Solutions with the goal of improving service – reducing what they call “out of gases” – while reducing transportation costs. Transportation costs went down by 15%! This is also rare.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Because of the Covid 19 pandemic, the analysed companies ordered about a quarter fewer goods during the studied timeframe – in some cases, it was even more than 30% less. For the current year, companies ordered another 9% less on average. Companies also struggled with problems in the transport sector.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FourKites CEO, Matt Elenjickal One of the two leaders in the real-time transportation visibility market is FourKites. Today, FourKites can track order visibility. Calling the FourKites platform a real-time transportation visibility solution is a misnomer; This is a real-time supply chain visibility solution. That is fast growth.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Is order picking always the same? STILL – one of the leading suppliers of intralogistics solutions and a successful market player for more than 100 years – says it can provide the right order picking vehicle for any customer requirement. The requirements in order picking are diverse and so are the users’ needs for information.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. We deal with our suppliers of transportation on a daily basis: our select carrier partners.

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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2020

What do horse racing 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify and the phone case you ordered online have in common? Most Thoroughbreds are accustomed to this type of transport. In some sense, horse transport hasn’t changed much since its glory days in the Jazz Age and Depression. The post How Are Thoroughbred Horses Transported?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Machine learning (ML) techniques can be applied to provide more accurate transit information and estimated arrival times (ETAs) by analyzing the historical shipment data in your transportation management systems. Increased lead time accuracy reduces risks involved in transportation and logistics, improving your overall supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My first impression at that time was the mental image it provoked – a delivery truck pulling up to my house and placing a package that I hadn’t ordered on my front door, but ultimately decided to keep. But a disadvantage compared to physical stores was the wait time between ordering and receipt of merchandise.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 17, 2022

High priced diesel fuel impacts the total cost of transportation through fuel surcharges. How to help manage overall transportation costs. Add that to an already volatile, over-burdened freight market and these steeply rising prices are greatly impacting fuel surcharges, total cost of transportation, and logistics budgets overall.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Using transportation management software (TMS) is a powerful way to gain control and visibility over your supply chain. But trying to decide which transportation management provider to use can be overwhelming. There are so many different software platforms available and providers who offer transportation management software.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

How much are you spending on manufacturing, shipping, marketing, customer support, logistics services, and order fulfillment services? For example, ShipMonk customizes logistics services and associated fees to the unique needs of every client. There are many different models and formulas for strategically ordering inventory.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 19, 2020

Here at ShipMonk, we live, breathe, and eat order fulfillment (okay, maybe not the eating part, but you get the idea). Despite order fulfillment being an integral aspect of eCommerce, very few people are entirely familiar with exactly what it is and how it works… and we don’t blame them! How Does Order Fulfillment Work?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2019

Last year many shippers were caught flat-footed by rising transportation costs and capacity constraints. It’s safe to say that in 2019 shippers will likely be more vigilant and more proactive in looking for opportunities to better manage and control their transportation costs. Transportation spend at the C-level.

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Forto

APRIL 25, 2020

Digital order management systems create competitive advantages not only in times of crisis. A digital order management solution enables companies to have transparency about products in transit so that they are in the right place at the right time. Purchase Order Management in practice. Current challenges in logistics.

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Forto

APRIL 9, 2020

Digital order management systems create competitive advantages not only in times of crisis. A digital order management solution enables companies to have transparency about products in transit so that they are in the right place at the right time. . Purchase Order Management in practice. Current challenges in logistics.

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