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Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions

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More Resources Home Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions Joyce Tai April 2, 2024 If there’s one lingering lesson from the supply chain crisis of COVID, it’s that digitization can help organizations navigate crises…but that digitization can’t be put in place DURING that same crisis.

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Spy Planes to Shipping Rates: Developing the Next Generation When Nothing Is Really Broken

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More Resources Home Spy Planes to Shipping Rates: Developing the Next Generation When Nothing Is Really Broken Eytan Buchman September 20, 2023 Unbox your Freight knowledge. Yes, real-time eBooking for forwarders has popped over the last three years, with hundreds of thousands of them placed every quarter across our platform.

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Dynamic Fulfillment 101: Achieving Multiple Objectives for Better Margins

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Last week, we talked about the three components of cost-based fulfillment optimization – ship cost, labor cost, and expected revenue. Multi-objective optimization is when Dynamic Fulfillment takes all of those costs we talked about (shipping, labor, markdowns) and analyzes them simultaneously to find the perfect balance between all three.

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Less Than Truckload Shipping Trends to Wrap Up 2018

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Shipping rates will continue to soar, and demand for more capacity will push the stretched industry to its breaking point, says Michael Angell of Freight Waves. As consumers take to their favorite retailers, also due in part to the strong economy, volume shipped will increase. Download eBook. Get Your Free Copy Here.

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Dynamic Fulfillment 101: The Cost-Based Approach and The Three Keys to Optimizing Your Total Cost-to-Serve

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It examines multiple objectives and factors like shipping costs, location-specific operational behavior, and store demand, and then analyzes every permutation – in subseconds. 1 – Ship Cost The first component is ship cost. #1 1 – Ship Cost The first component is ship cost. What do we mean by expected revenue ?

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5 Ways a 3PL Provider Can Transform Your Supply Chain

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Learn more about transforming your supply chain by downloading the ebook: The Comprehensive Guide to Supply Chain Resilience. Using multimodal shipping services and logistics solutions helps mitigate capacity challenges and meet customer delivery expectations. Technology. Multi-modal Expertise.

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How Do You Ship an Electric Bicycle?

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Get Our EBOOK HERE. However, shipping an electric bicycle presents a unique set of challenges. Plus, the lithium battery that powers the bicycle creates additional hurdles for shipping. We turned to sales executive Cole Sweetser for the inside scoop on electric bicycle shipping. Basics of e-bike shipping.