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Freight Costs: 5 tips to get the biggest bang for your buck

FreightWaves SONAR

Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. This sector covers important activities relating to procurement, transport, and storage of goods. Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Think about this.

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Top 10 Practical Supply Chain Management Tips for Businesses

3PL Links

Image source: Shipbob | Top 10 Practical Supply Chain Management Tips for Businesses Effective supply chain management becomes an increasingly important sector full of strategic opportunities and difficulties in an increasingly dynamic and complicated network. Check out 10 practical tips to improve your company’s supply chain management: 1.

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10 shipper of choice tips to aid in securing capacity and carrier relationships

FreightWaves SONAR

With competition and the demand for fast and reliable transportation management options also increasing at rates never seen before, shippers need to focus on providing quality services to thrive. Improving dock efficiency times ensures drivers can get in and out quickly, which reduces delays in order fulfillment and transportation.

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Editor’s Choice: Tips for Trucking Companies to Decrease Their Insurance Premiums

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from Emerge and offers tips for trucking companies to decrease their insurance premiums. In a report released earlier this year, ATRI (the American Transportation Research Institute) stated that premiums have rocketed up 47% per mile over the last decade. To read the full article, click HERE.

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5 Budget-Friendly Tips for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

No matter what type of ecommerce store you’re running, ShipMonk wants to help bolster your success with FIVE of the BEST BUDGET-FRIENDLY TIPS to protect your bottom line and enhance your profits. #1 The above five tips are musts for maintaining a budget-friendly ecommerce brand. What it comes down to, really, is 2-day shipping.

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3 Tips on Shipping Produce

Trinity Logistics

Here are three tips to making the process as easy as possible. Tip #1: Give as much lead time as you can for orders. Refrigerated trucks or reefers are ideal to transport produce because they can adjust and keep temperatures where they need to be for your product. Tip #3: Have detention rules clearly laid out.

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7 Tips For Building Supply Chain Resiliency

GlobalTranz

A supply chain built for resiliency allows a company to adapt to unpredictable forces while maintaining customer service. Tips For Building Supply Chain Resiliency. Look for a TMS or a managed transportation services provider with the technological capability to provide real-time data to drive optimized decision-making.