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3PL vs 4PL: How to Know Which One is Right for You

GlobalTranz

Among the services which they provide are transportation, warehousing, cross-docking, inventory management, packaging, and freight forwarding.”. It includes brokerages and freight forwarders, but there comes a point at which simply outsourcing to a single 3PL or even several 3PLs grows too complex to handle. Billion by 2026.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Legislation introduced to improve food safety and hold FDA accountable. A strong uptake in collaborative robot usage within the medical, education, logistics, and catering fields will likely drive that market to grow to three times its 2021 size by 2026. Shipping companies added capacity, but now containers are stuck in port.

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Five Advanced Technologies That Are Revolutionizing Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

For logistics teams seeking to manage volatility and deliver more predictable, profitable results, five advanced technologies should be in their toolkits: digital control towers, warehouse task automation, warehouse robotics, dynamic price discovery and digital freight bidding. Digital Freight Bidding. billion in 2020 to $15.79

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This Week in Logistics News (April 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Applications are due by July 2021, with the program looking to reduce deforestation between 2022 and 2026. Previously, some Prime members could get Amazon Fresh orders and Whole Foods deliveries dropped off in their garage, but only if they lived in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. At the end of 2021, ocean freight rates were more than three times what they were throughout 2020. In November 2021, global air freight traffic (measured in tonne-kilometres) saw a 3.7% Bloomberg).

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How to Build an Amazon Distribution Network for Third-Party Sellers

Ware2Go

Grocery was one of the fastest growing ecommerce segments in recent years and is projected to make up 20% of ecommerce by 2026. To be fair, Amazon does own Whole Foods where they offer in-store pickup from lockers. However, Whole Foods only has around 500 brick-and-mortar locations – nowhere close to Walmart’s footprint.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

That spells big trouble ahead for food producers and agricultural enterprises reliant on such commodities. For instance, the hangover from the pandemic, which has not yet permitted ocean freight from China to return to anything like normal service, is a problem that continued COVID outbreaks and associated port closures are exacerbating.