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Optimizing Ecommerce Warehouse Costs: Spend Less, Gain More

ShipBob

Warehousing is expensive. Setting up and maintaining a warehouse makes up a significant portion of your overall ecommerce operational costs and has a heavy impact on your bottom line. If you’re considering renting or buying a warehouse, you need to keep these expenses in mind. Let’s get started.

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The Logistics of Customer Experience with Scott Perry

The Logistics of Logistics

From humble beginnings in 1919 as a moving company in Jacksonville, Florida, The company has grown into a $600-million global transportation, relocation management and logistics company, serving 180 countries with 2,000 employees around the globe. Prior to that, he was Chief Technology and Procurement Officer for Ryder System, Inc.’s

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

From a simple place to stock goods, warehouses have developed in many ways—function and form included. Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Where to Do Your Warehousing. Who Will Do Your Warehousing?

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Warehouse Space Growing Tighter on Rising E-Commerce Demands (WSJ – sub. Hurricane season is upon us, and the latest one, Hurricane Michael, has caused serious damage and disruption in the Florida Panhandle region and beyond. Alexa in the Warehouse.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up September 1 2023

Supply Chain Matters

West Coast Dockworkers Ratify New Labor Contract Members of The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have completed the voting process and have ratified a new six-year labor contract covering 29 U.S. The storm made landfall near Keaton Beach, Florida as Category 3 hurricane storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph.

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ThroughPut Inc. Appoints Retired Pentagon Brigadier General Max J. Stitzer, U.S Air Force, to Advisory Board

ThroughPut

ThroughPut’s AI-driven approach bridges the gap between the base level and enterprise level of maintenance and procurement, in order to make existing materiel more accessible within the extended Department of Defense. Department of Defense organizations are evaluating supply chain technologies that accelerate equipment readiness.

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2019 Logistics & Supply Chain Events to Attend in the US

EazyStock

Miami, Florida. The International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA) brings an extensive network of warehouse logistics leaders together with warehousing suppliers in this three-day trade show. If you’re looking to improve your warehouse logistics, this event is the right choice for you! Feb 3-7, 2019.