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Rapidly Rising Minimum Wages Will Significantly Increase Your Warehouse and 3PL Costs: Effective Strategies to Combat Their Impact on Your Bottom Line

GlobalTranz

and Kansas City, MO. . How will this Impact my Business and 3PL Costs? If you are outsourcing to a 3PL expect a series of potential increases in 3PL costs starting the first of the year, followed by a mid-year increase in 2016 and large annual increases for the next four years. a katz / Shutterstock.com.

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A Core Carrier +1 (CC+1) Strategy: A Solution for a Changing Market

Talking Logistics

It doesn’t make sense to manage 50 relationships when you’re shipping in only a few lanes. For those of you new to the idea of CC+1, essentially it means you keep working with a small group of your core carriers, but also work with a third party logistics provider (3PL) instead of too many other carriers.