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Controlling Supply Chain Cost for Sustainable Growth

Blue Grace Logistics

This enables businesses to leverage economies of scale, negotiate favorable freight rates, and access value-added services like warehousing, transportation, and order fulfillment. A knowledgeable 3PL brings industry expertise, specialized infrastructure, and established networks. Are You Profitable with Your Transportation Strategy?

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How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping

Dedola Global Logistics

For instance, things like fuel prices, hourly wages for employees, and materials are some hard costs. Soft costs are usually time-consuming tasks such as planning, tracking shipments, gathering documents, handling disputes, and handling communication with your freight forwarder and over-seas suppliers.

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How to Win During Peak Shipping Season

Logistics Business Magazine

This article by SHIPSTA addresses six of the most common challenges that can surface in peak shipping season, while providing solutions on how to best address them. Take a closer look at SHIPSTA to see how its platform and services can help you both during and outside the peak shipping seasons.

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How to create a reliable supply chain with effective forecasting and inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Reliance on too few primary suppliers for critical components and materials has compounded the problem even further with unexpected ripple effects on downstream manufacturing as evidenced by the still ongoing global computer chip shortages. Manufacturers know that good supplier relationships are critical. Managing Inventory.

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How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping

Dedola Global Logistics

How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping. For instance, things like fuel prices, hourly wages for employees, and materials are some hard costs. How can importers and exporters reduce soft costs? The post How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping appeared first on Dedola Global Logistics. The Dedola Difference. Contact Us.

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Effective Stock Replenishment: Why you need it & how to achieve it

EazyStock

A key responsibility of every stock replenishment team is to negotiate the best price for the items they reorder, so that the sell-on price can be as profitable as possible. But when looking at the bigger picture the ‘best-price’ is not always the most cost-effective way to procure a product.

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How to Create a Truckload Strategy That Works in Any Market

Talking Logistics

In this post, I will outline how to select reliable core carriers and find the right third party logistics provider (3PL) for your business. Discuss with your strategic suppliers what is most attractive to them. For example, ask your asset carriers what lanes they need and how much volume to increase their yield.