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Benefits of Using a Detroit Warehouse

3PL Insights

Having the capability to ship freight via truck, rail, and even ship makes Detroit an adaptable location for any of your transportation needs. Transporting approximately 230 million metric tons of freight every year, the seaway allows businesses to ship products internationally using the most cost-effective form of freight transportation.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart Canada is piloting an automated receiving solution. Officials say traffic could be so severe “that the day may be mostly unproductive for freight vehicles,” and they are asking truckers to take a voluntary holiday to avoid congested roadways that could impact their routes. The Arkansas Department of Transportation expects 1.5

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Descartes is a public company headquartered in Waterloo, Canada. temperature, shock, and humidity) are available through the GLN for over-the-road transportation via Descartes MacroPoint and global air freight via Descartes BLE for high-value shipments for major airlines and ground handling agents at 450 airports worldwide.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist.

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What Are General Rate Increases in Shipping & What Should Enterprises Know?

Intelligent Audit

In modern freight transportation services, GRI stands for General Rate Increase. As a shipper, it’s impossible to avoid rate increases at times, and while freight invoice audits help to catch errors, not knowing the facts behind GRIs will only open the doors to risk. FedEx Freight shipping rates will increase by an average of 4.9%

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Delivery is the Product: Takeaways from Transplace’s Shipper Symposium 2018

Talking Logistics

The comment caught my attention because later that morning I was going to moderate a discussion with Dan Dershem , General Partner at Supply Chain Ventures, about emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous trucks, and digital freight. Digital Freight. Blockchain.

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How to Dispute Walmart OTIF Chargebacks

SupplyPike

One of two situations need to occur: Walmart didn’t pick the shipment up on time Walmart Freight didn’t drop the shipment off on time. Navigating your Walmart OTIF score can be difficult, so SupplyPike has created a solution that takes the data and dissects it into easy to read metrics. Prepaid orders are shipped to Walmart by you.

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