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Peak Shipping Season Update: What’s Driving Change in the Industry?

GlobalTranz

The long and unpredictable peak shipping season continues to challenge supply chains. A 2021 Peak Shipping Season survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence found hiring to be a strong concern among supply chain decision makers with 90% having a strong need to increase hiring to account for peak season and beyond. Higher freight volumes.

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Omnichannel Logistics Solutions Takes the Supply Chain To The Next Level

GlobalTranz

How technology in logistics grew throughout 2016 is not limited to the technology that delivers products or enables better, faster picking processes. But, you need to understand where the investments focused, how they relate to improving supply chains and why they are essential to omnichannel logistics solutions.

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Developing an LTL and E-Commerce Focused Shipping Strategy

GlobalTranz

Omnichannel is “in.” It sounds like a shipping nightmare, and in some respects, it is. This will require an LTL and e-commerce focused shipping strategy. As a result, companies must embrace the combined nature of omnichannel to realize its benefits, and the same is true of combined LTL and e-commerce shipping strategies.

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Omnichannel is another Word for Complexity

Enterra Insights

Omnichannel retail operations are well on their way to becoming the norm. Michael Jones ( @mdjonesy ), a business consultant, explains, “Consumers don’t shop ‘omnichannel.’ ”[1] Successful companies make omnichannel operations seamless and easy for consumers; but, behind the scenes complexity rules.

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11 Best Practices to Ship Parcel Like a Pro

GlobalTranz

These giants have deep pockets, capable of offering low-cost, if not free, parcel shipping. However, that does not mean all shippers must face the challenges to ship parcel at their expense. If shippers charge to ship parcel, customers will simply go to Amazon. Negotiate Shipping Rates Like a Pro.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 3-7, 2015)

Talking Logistics

This was a relatively quiet week for supply chain and logistics news, which is typical for August, so let’s go straight to it: Macy’s expands same day delivery to 17 cities as it challenges Amazon ( Reuters ). Cargo Chief Cracks the Code on Transportation Capacity. Cargo Chief Cracks the Code on Transportation Capacity.

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Carrier Capacity Management Levels the Playing Field in a Carriers’ Market

Logistics Viewpoints

The unprecedented cargo logjams off the southern California coast wreaking havoc on supply chains show no signs of waning. Just two days before Thanksgiving, FreightWaves reported an “all-time-high 93 ships” were waiting there. Omnichannel retailers have also begun reexamining their retail footprint from new perspectives.

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