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Will Trucking Challenges Transform JITS in North America?

QAD

Cost savings in warehousing and floor space along with associated reduction in personnel required. Trucking Challenges in North America. While the challenge may be looming globally, the North American automotive manufacturing base may be more inclined to try and dilute their just-in-time-sequence (JITS) supply loops.

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The Hidden Costs of Ghost Inventory: What You Need to Know

ShipBob

Ultimately, it results in struggles with business spending, purchasing, and productivity. To ensure regular and thorough inventory management, a third party logistics ( 3PL ) provider like ShipBob can really help. And this data discrepancy is because of poor inventory management and tracking. What is ghost inventory?

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Warehousing and storage. More agile on fulfilling requests and custom solutions. Freight forwarding. Track record.

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The 3 Biggest Problems Your Logistics Teams Will Face in Q4 and How to Solve Them with On-Demand Warehousing

FLEXE

Will your customers go directly to your stores to buy, will they research online and then pick up in-store, or will they complete all of their purchases through your website? Roger also knows the right answer is not to invest in more fixed assets or warehousing space, as it’ll leave him with too much capacity after the first of the year.

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Dig Deep: What to Know About TMS Hosting, Data Models and Integration

Talking Logistics

If you’ve ever purchased a transportation management system (TMS) for your organization – or any enterprise software – you know that the term “software as a service” (SaaS) gets thrown around a lot. Let’s translate that into a 3PL. But when the 3PL logs in to the MT1 level, they have access to all.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America. With that in mind, here are some ways to target supply chain service improvements by working with a 3PL.

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Benefits of Cross-Docking and the Port of Mobile, AL

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Seamless global trade to and from North America starts in Mobile because of the physical connections it has to rails, roads, rivers, and runways. This eliminated the need for scanning inventory into a warehouse management system (WMS) to optimize the movement of goods back out of the warehouse space.