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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

XPO Logistics to Acquire 3PD, the Largest Provider of Heavy Goods, Last-Mile Logistics in North America. Evenex has “over 3,000 customers exchanging more than 375,000,000 documents every year and is the leading and preferred business-to-business integration provider in Denmark.”. HighJump Software Acquires Evenex.

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If You Spend a Week with a Carrier’s Driver

Talking Logistics

He moves goods for Ikea around Western Europe, and had been in Denmark most recently. And when it comes to trucking, maybe it’s time to augment your carrier scorecard — that is, add metrics related to how your carriers pay and treat their drivers, and also put in the processes necessary to capture, verify, and track that information.

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Savant Talks – International Expansion with Made.com

Savant Events

Made.com announced earlier this year that it will expand its business to Portugal, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Denmark. Other relevant factors are the size of furniture and interior market of a country , the easiness to conduct business both in terms of payment methods and logistics/operations. Here’s what we talked about!

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Many people get really confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Cost as a percentage of sales (Logistics or Supply Chain). Total logistics cost. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. Supply Chain KPIs are Essential – The Right Ones! Gross profit.

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