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Freight Classification Errors, Re-Weighs, & Other Common Freight Adjustments Are Eating Your Bottom Line’s Lunch

GlobalTranz

Shippers are often challenged when dealing with the freight classification system from the National Motor Freight Classifications (NMFC) book, the code numbers assigned to all products that determine the correct freight class for shipments. A Brief on Freight Classification.

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The State of Technology in Controlled Substances and High-Value Supply Chains: Part 2, Pharma

Shipchain

Please enjoy Part 2 of our two-part webinar series focusing on high-value and controlled substances supply chains. This webinar will cover the pharma supply chain. Please submit your details below to view the webinar. Freight Carrier. Government/Military. Shipping Technology. See ShipChain in action.

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Understanding How Parcel Cost Control Reduces Total Transportation Costs

GlobalTranz

As a result, average shipment size has dwindled, driving increases in parcel freight spend. While freight consolidation is commonly applied to the process of combining LTL shipments to create full truckload shipments, parcel hundredweight programs use the same tactic, applied to multiple parcels.

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Supply Chain Trends for 2022: Answers to Your Top Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

As many of you have experienced firsthand, there are several factors influencing shipping today—most are adding challenges to an already constrained market. When supply versus demand becomes more balanced in the truckload market, we could see the freight with greater density migrate into truckload markets if it is more cost effective.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Interesting Facts & Financial Breakdown of the Global Logistics Market

GlobalTranz

The United States military ensured that the services and supplies were provided at the right time and at the right place. This also gave birth to several military logistics techniques which are still in use in a more advanced form. This infographic comes to us from freightXtension who are experts in cross-border shipping.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

GlobalTranz

Operations Research began when scientists demonstrated the value of analytics in the study of military logistics problems in the 1940s as a result of the complex requirements of World War II. By the 1960s, a clear trend had developed in shifting more time-dependent freight transportation to truck rather than rail.