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What value-added warehousing services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

With these services, your 3PL partner can perform – within the warehouse – many services that go beyond basic pick, pack and ship. Third-party procurement. Your 3PL can procure boxes, nuts, bolts, and other consumable parts and materials, store and manage that inventory, and invoice you only for the parts you need, when you need them.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 10 2023

Supply Chain Matters

This start-up was founded by Matt McKinney and Shaosu Liu, both of whom had backgrounds at Uber Freight and decided to tackle the massive problem of building a new structure for the legacy freight payment system that supports the global supply chain. will reportedly be one of the largest fully interoperable chassis pools in the U.S.,

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More than storage: What warehouse services can a 3PL provide?

Kanban Logistics

For example, let’s say your product is manufactured and packaged in China and is shipped to you in North Carolina for distribution here. You can ship the products back to China to be reconfigured and then shipped back to the U.S. Third-party procurement. Third-party procurement services from a 3PL can help.

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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

Containers of fitness equipment shipped from Asia were delayed by major port and inland logistics disruptions. The company was eventually forced to transport its bikes and equipment by more expensive air freight to avoid congested U.S. The attention of the company’s most senior management, as well as its investors became center stage.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.