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Navigating Uncharted Waters: SMB Importers, 2024 and Red Sea Crisis Lessons

Freightos

For example, the Freightos Baltic Index indicates a 69% increase to North America’s East Coast and a staggering 226% to Northern Europe since the crisis began. In fact, the hard reality is that looking back over the past decade, supply chains have been disrupted by shipping bankruptcies, wars, pandemics, geopolitics and tariffs.

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Shippers Access Newly Released Enterprise Multi-Carrier Parcel Shipping Solution in Transportation Management System With New Partnership

GlobalTranz

(Eagan, MN) – North American third-party logistics (3PL) company, Cerasis, in partnership with Pierbridge , a leading transportation management software development company, announces the addition of multi-parcel carrier shipping management to the Cerasis Rater, a web-based transportation management system (TMS).

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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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Honey, I Shrunk the Merchandise! How Missing Merchandise Hurts Retailers

BlueYonder

In North America, according to an IHL research report sponsored by Blue Yonder , retail loss due to out-of-stocks increased by a huge 17.7% As I mentioned earlier, shrink leads to empty shelves and out-of-stocks due to theft are much different than out-of-stocks due to a sell-through of what was shipped to the store.

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KanoPI: Our Proprietary Shipper Intelligence Tool

Zipline Logistics

Request a KanoPI Demo. Zipline Logistics is the only third-party logistics solutions provider in North America exclusively servicing the consumer-packaged goods sector. Top shipping locations: Walmart, Costco, Bath & Body Works, Whole Foods, and Best Buy . Are you ready to dominate your category? Our stats: .

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With Great Volumes Comes Great Uncertainty: A Guide to Navigating Peak Season 2021

Locus

Retailers across North America were looking forward to this year’s back-to-school season with eager anticipation. A Supply Chain Dive report quoted UPS CEO Carol Tomé projecting that delivery demand will outpace its capacity by 5 million pieces a day during the 2021 holiday shipping season. Share and Enjoy !

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This Week in Logistics News (July 10-14, 2017)

Talking Logistics

CX North America Releases Freight Vision Mobile App. Two judges smack down notorious patent holder “Shipping and Transit” in one week (Ars Technica). LLamasoft and LynnCo Supply Chain Solutions Announce Partnership. Paragon enhances routing and scheduling software with advanced fuel usage visibility.