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4 tips to reduce cargo damage and save money on shipping costs

Shipping and Freight Resource

With the right packaging, strategy, and tools, you can cut shipping costs by as much as 60%. You can also test different packaging materials and strategies, and get quantifiable data about how much better, or worse, different routes, shipping methods, and packaging are for the contents of your boxes and pallets.

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Door to Door Sales Tips: 10 Best Strategies for Your Delivery Business

WorkWave

Still, there are particular tips and tricks for door-to-door salespeople that make connections, build networks, and, most importantly, boost sales. Adding the door to door salesman tips listed below to your toolbelt will help each salesperson exceed quotas and enhance your pitching performance. Time To Read: 9 minutes.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

For example, slotting strategies often involve placing the fastest-moving SKUs close to the warehouse dispatch zones, minimising picking operatives’ travel distances and times. Therefore, any slotting strategy should focus on minimising such travel. The terms merely relate to the level of detail you assign to your slotting strategy.

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How manufacturers and distributors can mitigate disruption in the global supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

This is to avoid more costly routes such as the Panama Canal or taking the long haul around the tip of Africa or South America. To assist with the short-term solution, the answer is an extensive data-gathering exercise. Align your business and supply chain strategies. Use data to improve operations.

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Stuck on the wrong side of the world but still needing to deliver food to people in Ethiopia 5,000…

World Food Programme Logistics

What tools are important for you now? Well, ordinarily my WFP laptop would be my main tool but I left it in Ethiopia when I came on what should have been a short trip home. Kamal’s two rooftop activities: reading and exercise. I’m doing some light exercise every morning and trying to get the family to join me.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. That’s a strong indicator that improvements are there for the taking, but you need to exercise care in how you go about it. High Cost to Serve: It’s an Omnichannel Problem.

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Intelligent Automation, the Future of Supply Chain. Is the Logistics Industry Ready?

Blue Grace Logistics

A large amount of data is used as the base for making strategies and taking decisions. However, like with all new things, there’s a need to exercise caution. However, like with all new things, there’s a need to exercise caution. Refined Analytics: Logistics is a data-intensive function.