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10 Best Practices for a Successful 3PL Warehouse Business

Camelot 3PL Software

It provides visibility into current stock levels, location of items, and the status of inbound and outbound shipments. These technologies can automate repetitive tasks such as picking, packing, and sorting, reducing manual labor and minimizing errors. Training should also cover safety procedures to prevent accidents.

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What Is Cross-Docking?

FW Logsitcs

Goods come into the dock and are immediately sorted, consolidated, and loaded onto outbound trucks heading to retail stores, distribution centers, or customer locations. However, it requires precise coordination between inbound and outbound shipments and inventory visibility. Outbound trucks deliver shipments to next locations.

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WMS Modernization at Raymour & Flanigan: Adding Efficiencies to a Positive Customer Experience

Logistics Viewpoints

One telling example is that an item would sometimes pass through three DCs before final delivery to the customer. For example, inventory was not slotted to minimize touches or facility travel distances. For example, inventory was not slotted to minimize touches or facility travel distances.

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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

It’s simple: you mix your own outbound shipments with inbound and outbound 3rd party deliveries so the truck is never empty. If you pick up one package for every one you deliver, shipping revenue generated by that truck would double! Half the route is a dead head back to a distribution center to be refilled. I bet it will.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Mr. Niebur did not say which risk management solution provider they picked, but I suspect they implemented a solution from riskmethods. This includes plant operations, inbound and outbound transportation, warehousing, demand planning and our comprehensive and running supply chain risk management ecosystem. Can you update me on this?

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Automated Hand-Scanning Upgrade

Logistics Business Magazine

The automation of hand scanning processes increases productivity at inbound and outbound areas of logistics hubs dramatically. Hand-held barcode readers are still widely used to ensure the traceability of goods and packages, for example in retail, warehousing and parcel sorting operations.

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Thank You Thursday Shout Outs – April

Ship Monk

Thank you for being an example of what makes ShipMonk great, Jose! They have helped replace the flooring in the office area, built shelving, adjusted carts, and built new pallet racking to increase pick efficiency in certain areas as well. Pennsylvania Fulfillment Center PA1 TYT goes out to Adiela T from Outbound!