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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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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

I hope we can agree that Amazon will disrupt an industry if it wants to. ” They’d deploy their Black Belts, Lean Masters, and AI algorithms to see how to reduce it. No business is successful at 50% utilization, so how do you fill the rest of the route with paying customers? So how does this work?

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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. Regular Training Training is essential to ensure that all staff members understand how to use the WMS and follow warehouse procedures. Training should also cover safety procedures to prevent accidents.

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Everything You Should Know About Risk Management in Logistics

3PL Links

Many businesses, however, are unaware of the specifics of risk management in the logistics chain and how to properly execute it. A deliberate approach to detecting, assessing, and reducing risks that could have an impact on the effectiveness and safety of logistics operations is known as risk management in the industry.

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Making your carrier sales team as powerful as your customer sales team

FreightWaves SONAR

The freight brokerage industry has traditionally focused its attention on the training and development of its customer sales staff. Shippers will not be willing to accept a lack of trucking capacity or last-minute price changes in an industry that is becoming more transparent. Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves at Edge Logistics.

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7 Reasons to Outsource Returns

Ship Monk

The returns process is every bit as complex and labor intensive as the outbound fulfillment process , but nowhere near as rewarding. Even if you don’t agree, you might glean a few tips on how to improve your own process. Team members are trained to inspect each item as it comes in and follow the merchant’s instructions to the letter.

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Choosing Your Freight Shipping Method: Air, Land, or Sea

Ship Monk

No matter what you’re selling in your online store, you have to ship your merchandise in bulk to a fulfillment center (what we call inbound freight shipping), and you also have to deliver orders to your end customers (what we call outbound small-parcel shipping). The goods are packaged in bulk, in boxes or stacked and wrapped on pallets.

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