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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

When asked what peak season is, it’s easy to assume the holidays are the only peak shipping season. However, four shipping seasons occur throughout the year and are often regular and expected. That was the case until the ongoing disruptions of the past few years changed the shipping game. Q2: The Produce Shipping Season.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

There was no air freight possible then into Europe,” added Gerald van den Eijnden. You would call up the freight forwarders, and they would send an Excel spreadsheet” that contained all the shipments for Molex in the coming days or weeks. Yes, SAP had inbound ASN’s (advanced ship notices). But they were very basic.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

This DC supplies that hospital and Cooper’s other facilities. The health care system’s primary distributors deliver supplies every morning to this DC. For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping.

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What value-added warehousing services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

With these services, your 3PL partner can perform – within the warehouse – many services that go beyond basic pick, pack and ship. Some retailers have ‘preferred’ logistics partners that enjoy privileges like the ability to drop trailers off at a DC without an appointment. Third-party procurement.

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Best Supply Chain Blogs

NC State SCRC

Freight & Transportation – Cerasis Blog (small package and LTL), Freightos Blog (Freight and Logistics), , Flexport (Global Shipping), GCaptain (Facebook for Logistics), GLogistics (shippers and carriers), Shipping and Freight Resources, Transport Topics, Transport Monthly.

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

Shipping Gazette Daily News. One of the most comprehensive daily summaries, and by far the leading Asian-based summary, China’s Shipping Gazette provides daily information about carriers, forwarders and technology. Since 1974 with industry-leading expertise in, well, American shipping. Ocean freight is split into 14!

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More than storage: What warehouse services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

Some retailers have ‘preferred’ logistics partners that enjoy privileges like the ability to drop trailers off at a DC without an appointment. This enables the non-preferred carrier to skip the appointment process as the preferred 3PL simply drops the trailer at the retailer’s DC. Third-party procurement.