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Freight Pricing 2020 Trends: What Should Shippers Know?

GlobalTranz

billion packages will make their way to U.S. customers in 2020. The post Freight Pricing 2020 Trends: What Should Shippers Know? appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. Traditional demands of the supply chain market, including increased visibility, better.read More.

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Transportation Metrics That Matter Most to Track and Improve Performance

GlobalTranz

Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics. Transportation metrics provide visibility that helps drive operative and competitive advantages.

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Packaging Comes to the Forefront of Sustainability Efforts

Enterra Insights

2] In an effort to reduce waste heading to landfills, product packaging, especially the use of plastics, has become a target. Earlier this month, “Maine Governor Janet Mills … signed the nation’s first extended producer responsibility, or EPR, law, effectively holding corporations accountable for the packaging waste they create.

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What is Smart Packaging.

ModusLink Corporation

The importance of correct packaging. Packaging is an important element that manifests its presence within all stages of the product flow. These stages can be identified as the purchase of raw materials, the production and sale of the final product, and not to forget transportation and distribution. This phase is the smallest.

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Logistics Experts from SSI Schaefer Implement Automated Deep-Freeze Warehouse in Manila, Philippines – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Supplying this urban population with fresh food is difficult due to the tropical temperatures and the overloaded transport infrastructure with frequent traffic gridlocks. Up to 37% of the food produced worldwide spoils due to poor packaging, storage and handling. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – October/November 2020.

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Packaging Manufacturing Predictions Post-Pandemic

QAD

Think of the role that packaging plays in your life. Packaging is everywhere. And as COVID-19 has changed the world permanently in so many ways, from how we live to how we work, it has changed packaging too. Here’s how packaging manufacturing has evolved during the pandemic. It hit 33% in July 2020.

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2023 Holiday Logistics Guide

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS UPS will hire more than 100,000 seasonal employees to serve the 2023 holiday rush, including seasonal delivery drivers, commercial driver’s license (CDL) drivers, and package handlers, the company said. The e-commerce company said it has opened over 50 new fulfillment centers, and other facilities in the U.S.