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How To Overcome 10 Common E-commerce Shipping Fulfillment Issues

WorkWave

However, there are strategies to lower these shipping costs. If possible, the best way to avoid location issues is to procure multiple warehouses in targeted locations to best serve your consumer base. For this reason, you should have a system in place to track orders, internally, and send customized updates to buyers.

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How to Build an Effective Logistics Communication Process  

Blue Grace Logistics

While communication in varied forms and frequency is essential for all departments, it is extremely crucial for the executors of the organization’s plans and strategies – the Logistics Department. The procurement team needs information from logistics when new vendors are to be hired or old contracts are due for renewal.

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How to Sustain a Lean Culture in Manufacturing & Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

How to Breakthrough Lean Culture Plateaus. Using a "Business Status Sheet" to drive daily improvement. Leader standard work in order to create accountability within the team structure; Problem-solving thinking; how to align your organization so that the right problems are solved at the right level. Behaviors. .

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Tips for Effectively Managing E-Commerce Logistics

GlobalTranz

Yet, as few as 33 percent of shippers have taken advantage of a transportation management system (TMS), reports Michael of Levans of Logistics Management. Traditional warehouse management systems (WMS) were designed to handle orders in batches, which are costly in e-commerce fulfillment. E-commerce is in the middle of a boom.

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Sustainable transport: What are the choices for shippers?

Transporeon

Many have adopted sustainability strategies that contain buzzwords such as “zero emissions”, “net positive” and “sustainable development” Companies don’t want to pollute the environment by their very existence and, ideally, they intend to make a positive impact on society and our planet.

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Reverse Supply Chains: Best Practices for Better Asset Recovery

GlobalTranz

As most warehouse strategies are formed to combat issues of product shortage or provide important accounting data regarding a product, technology has been created to help reverse supply chains and drive larger recovery by serving the business needs for selling surplus. Improved transparency of the status of the returned item.

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2016 Supply Chain Trends: 7 of 12 Trends that Will Drive Supply Chain Management in 2016

GlobalTranz

Businesses cannot unlock the full potential of digital without reinventing their supply chain strategy. For digital technology to create significant improvement in business outcomes, businesses need to: Reinvent their supply chain strategy. Develop digital strategies that allow you to proactively evolve ahead of the competition.