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5 Engagement Strategies in Managing a Relationship With a Transportation Management 3PL

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This is our 9th post in our strategic transportation management and logistics series. When selecting a transportation mangement 3PL to aid you in a robust and effective transportation management strategy , defining the rules of engagement is critical to success. Do you even first understand your own needs?

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The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015

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3PL Summit & Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum by EyeForTransport Chicago, IL June 16 -18. The 3PL Summit is North America’s largest and most high-level gathering of logistics executives and their manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts. FTR Transportation Conference 2015 Indianapolis, Indiana; September 15-17.

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2019 Logistics & Supply Chain Events to Attend in the US

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ProMat is a four-day event that brings together 950 exhibitors, thousands of solution providers and over 100 seminars. 3PL & Supply Chain Summit: Atlanta. The 3PL & Supply Chain Summit hosted by eyefortransport (eft) is designed to offer attendees useful tools and ideas to overcome future supply chain challenges.

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TIA adds VPs to enhance membership and government affairs

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The Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) has appointed three new vice presidents to enhance its new membership and government affairs efforts. TIA is North America's leading association for freight brokers and 3PLs, with more than 1,700 members. He, too, serves as staff liaison on several transportation policy committees.

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LTL Weight and Inspection Grows: Shippers Who Misrepresent Freight need to know the Consequences

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This may include the retraining of how to use a carrier- or 3PL -associated transportation management systems, cost of attending courses or seminars to complete the training or the placement of shipping limitations for each shipper.

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Distribution in China takes a detour

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Hence the companies Bugaboo and Foss have both faced considerable challenges, as they revealed during the recent ‘Supply Chain Opportunities in China’ seminar in Amsterdam on 24 June 2015. The roundtable discussions during the seminar confirmed that it’s a familiar problem. By Marcel te Lindert. The nation has close to 1.4

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