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UPS fights for volumes

Cathy Roberson

UPS successfully reduced total hours by 10% and improved misload frequency by 67% through its network planning tools during the fourth quarter. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets on Air Cargo Next. Heading to Las Vegas next week? I wear a number of hats these days.

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Amazon Prime Offers Same-Day Delivery from Retailers

Multichannel Merchant

This is just the latest move in Amazon’s manifest destiny to own every aspect of ecommerce and the customer experience, from the click to the door and back again, as well as things like freight forwarding from Asia and express air with its own terminals and a leased fleet of jets. with more to follow.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. “Home Depot and Lowe’s let you return dead plants, for a year. The field is large and growing.

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Load Volume and Rates Move in Opposite Directions

DAT Solutions

FREIGHT RATES. Along with our standalone freight rates tool DAT RateView, all DAT load board packages include broker spot market rates on the lanes you're searching. On the upside, rates rose last week in individual freight markets, including Philadelphia, Buffalo, Chicago and Charlotte. DAT load board features.

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More on The Future of Delivery (Takeaways from MercuryGate Velocity 2017 User Conference)

Talking Logistics

A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. They will ultimately be less productive and effective than those who adopt more modern and powerful BI tools.