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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

When asked what peak season is, it’s easy to assume the holidays are the only peak shipping season. However, four shipping seasons occur throughout the year and are often regular and expected. That was the case until the ongoing disruptions of the past few years changed the shipping game. Q2: The Produce Shipping Season.

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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

As driver pay increases, so does the incidence of drivers jumping ship, switching companies for the next best payday. Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door.

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5 Steps to Optimizing a Shipper’s Transportation Network

Intelligent Audit

They also do what’s necessary to continue to meet high consumer demands, which means quick, on-time deliveries at the lowest costs. Transportation network optimization is simply streamlining your network of logistics carriers, the methods for shipping, and the processes for managing the network. Ready Your Data.

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How to Measure and Warehouse KPIs to Improve Performance

ShipBob

Warehousing requires keeping a close eye on performance by monitoring KPIs related to receiving, inventory management, and fulfillment. . By failing to monitor key KPIs, it will be hard to optimize your warehouse and make improvements accordingly. . In this article, learn how to track warehouse performance by monitoring the right KPIs.

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What Is On Time & In Full (OTIF) And How To Measure It

ShipBob

This involves keeping track of critical distribution metrics such as how many orders were shipped out on time because this is vital to determine how efficient their processes are, how satisfied customers will be, and whether they need to make improvements. The OTIF metric isn’t just for measuring delivery performance.

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The Last Mile Really Does Begin with the First Pick From Your Warehouse

Veridian Solutions

The last mile is a well-known and integral step in supply chain operations. Failures within the last mile often usurp all previous steps in the supply chain That said, the same value placed on the last mile should equal the first mile, and as a result, the first touchpoint.

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Fix Your Retail Supply Chain to Make the Last Mile Count

Logistics Bureau

Last mile might be the latest buzzword (or buzzwords) in logistics, but not without good reason. Perhaps the most important question to ask yourself is “Do we want our last mile services to compete on price or quality? ” Everything Leads to Last-mile Performance.