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Importer/Exporters vs Freight Forwarders/3PL – Levelling the Playing Field

3rdwave

Too often – make that almost always – importers and exporters (BCOs – Benefiticcial Cargo Owners) are dependent on their NVOCC, Freight Forwarder or 3PL (3PL) to provide them with visibility into their global supply chains. Advantage 3PL. The cost of dependency is huge.

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The State of the Trucking Market in 2021

GlobalTranz

Port backlogs, cargo limitations on container ships, and a lack of available equipment and port facility staffing.? Rapid Scalability and Leveraging the Collective Buying Power of a Large 3PL. Delays and congestion worsen each year, inventory strains continually affect capacity, and customer needs remain ever-changing.

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The Story Continues…. Let’s Don’t Sugar Coat the Real Issue

Supply Chain Shaman

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. Today, this is not a valid assumption, and most manufacturers lack the inventory buffers for inconsistent flows. This is not going to be pretty.

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Understanding First-Mile Delivery & Why it’s Important for Your Store

ShipBob

For instance, choosing between a domestic or overseas supplier will impact how quickly you ca receive new inventory, and where you story inventory based on customer location and demand can impact shipping costs and timelines. Partner with a tech-enabled 3PL. First-mile delivery also relies strongly on location.

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The expert’s guide to e-commerce fulfillment

6 River Systems

Without it, your inventory stays on the shelf, and your customers look elsewhere to get what they need. Inventory management techniques. This guide will primarily look at fulfillment through the e-commerce lens and deal mostly with third-party logistics (3PL) fulfillment methodologies. It involves: Inventory management.

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Fine-Tune Your Supply Chain By Looking at Amazon

Savi

From there, it can move horizontally to deliver cargo and packages for others and compete with other logistics service providers. In-transit visibility software-as-a-service provides accurate, live streaming data on the location and condition of cargo in motion.

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Now or Never: Why Supply Chain Sustainability is Non-Negotiable in 2022

Locus

billion metric tons—the emissions have rebounded in 2021 and 2022. The latter was so severe that cargo ships had to run at half their usual capacity. More time and energy is spent on forecasts to reduce inventory that is no longer in use. While the COVID-19 pandemic brought down CO2 emissions by 5 percent —to 34.81