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Blind Shipping: Solution for Inventory & Labor Challenges

GlobalTranz

Adapt To Fluctuating Inventory and Supply Chain Demand If your business faces seasonal demand changes or unpredictable customer buying patterns, accurately predicting inventory levels can be a struggle. Grow Without the Need for More Warehousing As your business expands, the need for more warehouse space often follows.

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Turn Off the Fog Machine: Move Past Groupthink to Drive A Positive, Data-Driven Narrative

Supply Chain Shaman

Labor shortages in warehousing persist as a significant issue, with a vacancy rate of 7.4%. The report mentions the freight recession, but is largely silent on the impact on business resiliency. What if we had a shipper rating system based on forecast, dock scheduling, warehouse logistics, and payables? of the national GDP.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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Lingering Port Congestion with Paul Brashier

The Logistics of Logistics

Having been featured in CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, The Loadstar, CBS News, Freight Waves, and Transport Topics, Brashier lends his expertise on US and global supply chain matters. ITS Logistics offers a wide range of services, including transportation management, warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment.

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Pirelli’s Digital Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Pirelli needed to move from using an army of representatives visiting dealer sites, showing them massive catalogs, and saying to the dealer, “You could buy this or this or this.” In some cases, the company had to buy market data. This was something they could not do with Excel. More costly freight?

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

Warehousing and distribution management is nota core skill. Peters and Waterman in their best, sellerIn Search for Excellence identify one of the eight factors of organisational success as sticking to the knitting. There are many apparent motives why companies outsource, but from my experience there are four principal reasons: 1.

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5 Megatrends Shaping Supply Chain Innovations

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

These e-fulfillment centres should also be heavy on solar power generation to meet the energy needs of both the facility as well as electric vehicles used in warehouse operations as well as for deliveries. Sea freight and airfreight costs have become very expensive. From global to local and regional sourcing.