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This Week in Logistics News (October 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of shipping a new smartphone to someone’s house and having it left on the front steps, one of Enjoy’s delivery workers will personally deliver and set up the phone, and then sell additional services. The company says it will be profitable in 2023 and is telling investors it plans to reach $1 billion in sales in 2025.

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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 29 – August 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Earlier this month, Yellow averted a strike by 22,000 Teamsters-represented workers and last week it said it was exploring opportunities to divest its third-party logistics company. The Rhine River has been a reliable shipping lane for centuries, helping spawn industrial giants along its banks.

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The Changing Landscape of Real Estate in the Logistics Industry

Logistics Bureau

This article delves into the changes that new commercial business models, customer expectations, and technology are bringing about in the logistics environment, focusing particularly on how those changes are impacting the planning, procurement, design, layout, and operation of distribution centres. The Changing Face of the DC.

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Beyond Multi-Carrier Shipping Software, a Move to the Cloud

GlobalTranz

Shipping is all about movement. The crux of the situation is that the need to move items faster, more efficiently, and cheaper to keep up with the quickening pace of parcel and consumers’demands for fast and free shipping. Well, this is where more movement, to multi-carrier shipping software, makes sense to shippers’ bottom lines.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

Saint-Gobain also has a goal for organic growth of 3 – 5% through 2025. We are only at the beginning of the journey of decarbonization of logistics. It might be that distribution centers (DCs) are delivering goods to customers in a 50-mile radius. Shipping by sea is less expensive, and has fewer emissions, but takes longer.

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Bed-in-a-box eRetailers Make Fulfillment Sexy

FLEXE

The key to keeping happy customers for these companies is delivering on promises like free shipping, 100-day guarantees and free returns. Any advantage with faster, lower cost shipping can be a game changer when convenience and speed are driving sales. The market is new, which means it’s nearly impossible to predict seasonality.