3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Develop a Diverse Supplier Network Relying on a single supplier can expose a business to significant risks, including supply chain disruptions, limited negotiating power, and potential price increases. By developing a network of suppliers, you can secure a more reliable supply and maintain competitive pricing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2025

As a supply chain executive, picture beginning your day with a cup of coffee when a news alert notifies you of newly imposed tariffs affecting your primary suppliers in China. Tariffs on steel from Chinaup 25%and retaliatory moves from Canada and Mexico may turn supplier relationships upside down.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

AI in Procurement: Enhancing Sourcing and Supplier Management Procurement has traditionally relied on human expertise, manual comparison of supplier options, and analysis of past performance. Lets examine critical domains, review implementation considerations, and discuss realistic expectations for adoption and outcomes.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Carrier Consolidation: The dominance of UPS and FedEx creates a duopoly, giving them significant pricing power. Shifts in the Market: Pitney Bowes: In 2024, Pitney Bowes made headlines with aggressive pricing strategies. This trend is expected to continue, making it essential to find ways to mitigate these costs.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 20, 2025

Optimize Supplier Relationships: Build strong relationships: Establish clear communication channels and foster collaboration with your suppliers. Diversify your supplier base: Don’t rely on a single supplier. This blog post will explore key strategies for streamlining your supply chain from sourcing to delivery.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

billion rate data points monthly to provide the most comprehensive view of the market, helping you identify savings opportunities and make data-driven decisions. It handles everything from rating and booking to shipment management, invoice auditing, and beyond.

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Freightquote

JULY 14, 2025

In the process, the platform helps shippers save up to 90% in carrier direct pricing. Robinson can secure for us that we wouldnt have otherwise been able to negotiate, given our volume.” Robinson global logistics network behind it, giving small businesses access to competitive rates typically reserved for larger shippers.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Strong supplier agreements and pricing structures depend on consistent leadership. When management shifts frequently, relationships with vendors and service providers become unstable, leading to potential renegotiation delays, lost bulk pricing, and inconsistent service levels. Impact on vendor relationships.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

But in general terms, retailers need to deal with; very broad product ranges, ranges that change, perhaps by season, possibly high levels of promotional activity, a broad supplier base and maybe some long supply lead times if there is a high degree of importing. Price; this needs to be competitive. But what is the end to end impact?

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Conger

MARCH 26, 2025

In this article you will understand the nuances of electric forklift rentals and become familiar with typical use cases and pricing structures to make informed decisions about electric forklift rentals for your business. In case you are just here for the pricing? Seasonality and Demand: Rental pricing can fluctuate with demand cycles.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Factory Gate Pricing (FGP) and Primary Freight (PF) strategies, as adopted by major grocery retailers, are causing a shudder up the spine of many retail suppliers. What are Factory Gate Pricing and Primary Freight strategies? Under the FGP and PF models, the retailers collect the products from the suppliers factory gate.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 4, 2025

Middleton) Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP ) in a statement confirmed that it is in formal negotiations with Dreamstar but offered no details. While pricing specifics are still being. We’ve identified a handful of potential suppliers and are evaluating next steps.” Southbound Southern Pacific No. Photo: William D.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 13, 2025

Pricing Structure: Remember those simple shipping options you see when shopping online? B2B freight pricing is much more complex, involving factors like volume commitments, lane pricing, fuel surcharges, accessorial charges and contract terms. The likelihood is that you did.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Investing in local suppliers and manufacturers strengthens regional trade networks, reducing exposure to geopolitical trade disputes. Companies must renegotiate supplier contracts to control costs and explore alternative sourcing strategies to minimize tariff exposure.

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DC Velocity

JUNE 8, 2025

Industries ranging from appliances and industrial goods to pharmaceuticals, automobiles, and electronics are bracing for price hikes that could reshape consumer behavior and market dynamics. These approaches range from leveraging tariff engineering approaches to strategic price pass-through to supply chain footprint reorganization.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These trade barriers, imposed by governments to control the flow of goods, can drastically affect everything from pricing to supply chains to overall business strategy. Political leverage: Sometimes, tariffs are used as a bargaining chip in international negotiations, pressuring other countries to change their policies or actions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Strategy: Reshoring production, regionalizing supply chains, or finding alternative suppliers are among the strategies available to mitigate the impact of tariffs on intermediate goods. For instance, a country can negotiate preferential trade agreements with its trading partners, thus enjoying lower tariffs.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

These costs cascade through the supply chain, raising consumer prices and squeezing profit margins. According to a National Retail Federation study , a 10% tariff on imported apparel can increase retail prices by 3% to 5%. Supplier Diversification Relying on a single country for sourcing is increasingly risky. Beyond the U.S.,

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DC Velocity

JULY 14, 2025

That slammed the brakes on orders, particularly from suppliers in China. Seroka does not necessarily see that reflected in inventory levels and expects that consumers will experience higher prices and fewer selections for both back-to-school and Halloween shopping. “On and virtually every trade partner. Don’t front-load everything.”

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Freight Waves

JUNE 2, 2025

The cargo yield is also expected to decline by 5.2%, reflecting a combination of slower demand growth and lower oil prices. When jet fuel prices rise, airlines add fuel surcharges that typically include extra profit margin above the cost. IATA’s December projection was for $157 billion in cargo revenue.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

billion rate data points monthly to provide the most comprehensive view of the market, helping you identify savings opportunities and make data-driven decisions. It handles everything from rating and booking to shipment management, invoice auditing, and beyond.

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Freightos

JUNE 12, 2025

With massive datasets behind decisions and external factors like volatility, benchmarking trends, supplier performance, and more, the procurement profession now requires a different skill set—more analytical, with deeper interactions with a limited number of trusted suppliers.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

Increased tariffs mean higher prices for raw materials and finished goods, but shipping, storage and handling costs often increase too, which threatens small- to midsized business (SMB) profitability — especially when up against larger competitors with more resources. Higher prices can alienate loyal buyers.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

Trump began notifying trading partners of new rates on July 7, ahead of a July 9 deadline for countries to wrap up negotiations with his administration — and posted to social media that he planned to release “a minimum of 7” letters on the morning of July 9, with additional rates to be posted in the afternoon.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 30, 2025

President Donald Trump earlier in June said negotiations with China yielded an agreement for Beijing to swiftly approve export licenses for rare earths. The coveted raw materials are deeply embedded in cars, iPhones and other products and China has used its dominance to exert leverage in the negotiations. China trade talks.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2025

This department focuses on procurement, contract negotiation, systems integration, service audits, and business intelligenceall aimed at streamlining operations and delivering exceptional customer experiences. She has spearheaded TMS development, strategic pricing, and managed 3PL customers while developing parcel resale programs.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 15, 2025

The Treasury chief, who has taken the leading role in Washington’s negotiations with China, said that he hopes to meet with his counterpart Vice Premier He Lifeng soon, possibly in a third country, either before or after the Chinese leadership hold a meeting early next month. Bessent and his fellow U.S. It was all part of a mosaic.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 8, 2025

President Donald Trump, aerospace has become increasingly enmeshed in negotiations over tariffs, with agreements punctuated by Boeing jet orders. Boeing had expected to deliver another 50 planes to China when the latest trade spat erupted in April, with Beijing countering Trump’s new levies by hiking tariffs that priced the U.S.-made

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Material Handling and Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

The company’s’s founder and president, Kylie Sparks, who’s proud to use only American metal; he’s also paying as much as 40% more since January as traders bid up the prices betting on a crunch. manufacturers report that input prices are rising at the fastest pace in seven years, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

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SIPMM Professional Publications

JULY 26, 2020

As a professional purchaser, negotiation skills will place one at an upper hand. Besides interacting closely with the suppliers for various deals, apurchaser has to negotiate effectively with potential suppliers to get the required goods at favourable pricing, within a given working budget.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Curtis’ career has taken him through LTL operations – both driver and dock, Weights and Research, pricing, yield management, strategy, sales, and technology. began its family business as a negotiation consultancy in response to the deregulation of the transportation industry. The Greenscreens.ai

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Ship Monk

APRIL 5, 2024

When was the last time you thought about your business’ relationship with its suppliers? The last time they raised prices? So much attention is paid to negotiating the price of the goods and coordinating the delivery that very little thought goes into the quality of the relationship and how improving it might help you both.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 17, 2015

While the opportunities are numerous so are the challenges; in this fiercely competitive global marketplace success requires companies to pay closer attention to supplier relations. Global leaders should retain suppliers with vested interest in the long-term success of the company.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

His primary research stream examines firms’ logistics operations, with an emphasis on studying motor carrier safety, productivity, pricing dynamics, and driver turnover. Supplier development. Supplier selection. Supplier relationships. Negotiations. The Three Main Supply Chain Functions. Scorecards.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is by our great friend, Chuck Intrieri where he gives us a fantastic example of how Procurement and Suppliers can enhance Supplier Relations by navigating the "Battle of the Forms.". Naturally, a supplier relations conflict exists. Contract Negotiation Enhancing Supplier Relations.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2024

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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

NTT DATA has been steadily moving more and more of their suppliers’ contracts onto the Ariba Network. Some suppliers have four or five-year contracts, so this work is ongoing. The big spend categories that are the focus for negotiations are contingent/professional labor and IT Hardware/Software & Cloud/Data Center services.

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