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Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth

ToolsGroup

Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. 84% of buyers read the return policy before making an online purchase. Knowing the importance of managing the return of merchandise, let’s look at the goals and benefits of a customer-centric return policy.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

The projected mineral supply until the end of the 2020s is in line with the demand for EV batteries in the ‘stated policies scenario’ of the IEA’s world energy model. For comparison, they spent $3.4 More companies looked to implement grocery deliveries, and third party companies looked to build out their rosters of drivers.

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How rate transparency grows SMBs: Introducing the FBA Index

Freightos

Among the over 10,000 small businesses on Freightos.com , the world’s largest digital freight marketplace, many are small eCommerce businesses who use Freightos.com to ship directly to Amazon FBA warehouses and other fulfillment solutions. Adaptability of SMBs. How does this help importers?

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Design for Supply Chain Now, or Pay the Price Later

Elementum

Of course you’ll also want to answer this question before launching mass marketing campaigns, building up inventories, and hitting record sales — only to learn that money’s being lost because material costs are too high. (Or At the same time, China’s Zero Covid policy has repeatedly brought supply lines in the country to a halt.

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Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process

GlobalTranz

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. This metric measures how effective your organization is in being compliant with local, national, or global policies that affect your business.

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CPFR or Demand-Driven replenishment for your supply chain? Choose wisely….

The Network Effect

In fact some vendors have even published comparisons of the workflows in their systems to the structure of CPFR. Using this method means a price must be paid in lost sales along with excess and obsolete inventory. Typical measurements include inventory turns, truck utilization, and premium freight reduction. What is CPFR?

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

US challenges Canada’s dairy policies. And, in comparison to the previous high-water marks, which were set just three months ago in the fourth quarter of 2021, they show growth of 7 percent and 25 percent respectively. And now on this week’s logistics news. How Shanghai’s lockdown is dampening Port of Oakland volumes.