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

Freightos

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. They should monitor the evolving geopolitical situation and adjust their shipping strategies accordingly. Most of these are nearly impossible to plan for.

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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

The interesting shift here, though, is that there’s a whole world of alternative shipping routes. The traditional China-Northern Europe route alternative banked on sea freight to Dubai, followed by air shipping to the final European destination. For a full shipping container, that results in a full $3,804 of savings, or a 17% savings.

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WordPress Ecommerce Shipping: Scaling Your Online Store Through Shipping

ShipBob

With over 60 million downloads, WooCommerce grew from a simple WordPress plugin to a fully customizable ecommerce platform. Even more, WooCommerce offers flexible shipping options and settings, including the opportunity to work with tech-driven order fulfillment companies and other platforms that can help you grow your business.

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The Holy Grail of Modern S&OP: Multi-Horizon Integrated Business Planning 

Logility

Your customer service and operational costs will always be impacted by your need to ship orders across the country.” That’s where business groups use these long-term strategies around customer service on a month-to-month basis – rather than every three years as done in the past – to pivot their fulfillment capabilities quickly,” he reflects.

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AI Blind Spots? Here’s What Retailers May Miss About Artificial Intelligence

BlueYonder

Consider what top researchers have recently reported: Boston Consulting Group : “The vast majority [of retailers] are missing out on an opportunity to embrace solutions powered by AI that promise to improve resilience and deliver long-term structural advantage.” And just 16% applied AI to improve the accuracy of their estimated ship dates.

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NRF 2022: 4 Big Session Themes from Retail’s Big Show

ToolsGroup

Download guide: 8 Winning Strategies to Combat Supply Shortages ? The new infrastructure bill invests $17 billion for shipping ports , but Ruda maintains “We can’t build our way out of this problem. As for goods and labor inflation, “We’ve lived through these before and we can anticipate macro changes,” says Cornell.

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[e-Book] The Essential Guide to Inbound Freight Management

GlobalTranz

Inbound freight management is receiving a lot of attention as businesses continue to look for ways to manage shipping costs. If you’re looking to save costs on shipping, take a look at inbound shipping. Download the Inbound Freight Management E-Book: Fill out the Form Below. The payoff, however, is still substantial.