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How to Reduce Shipping Costs: 8 Effective Ways

Ware2Go

Customer expectations for shipping are higher than ever. Learn how to meet expectations without sacrificing bottom line revenue with these 8 simple tips. Why Shipping Costs Matter. In fact, 37% of consumers actually expect small to mid-sized merchants to ship faster than their big box competitors.

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8 Examples of Kanban in Lean Manufacturing

Unleashed

This is a radical shift from more traditional processes where demand is predicted in advance and materials are bought in bulk to reduce supply chain costs, such as transport. assembly), so they can perform their task and hand the product to the customer – or ship it, as would generally be the case.

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Transloading 101: Logistics Guide to Understanding This Essential Shipping Process

ShipBob

When it comes to the long-distance transfer of goods, you probably want the best of both worlds: economical rail transport and flexible over-the-road trucking. That’s why many businesses outsource shipping to third-party logistics ( 3PL ) providers like ShipBob. With transloading, you get just that. What is transloading?

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Global Status of the Physical Internet — A Vision for Sustainable, Secure, Resilient Supply Chains

Freightera

BM: For society, the Physical Internet (PI) enables order-of-magnitude improvements in the efficiency, sustainability, security, trustability and resilience of supply chains, logistics, and freight transportation, all around the world, within each company and across industries. We are thinking how to guide collective action.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

The 80-pound hexagon-shaped aircraft, about 5½ feet in diameter, is nimble enough to make deliveries in highly populated areas such as Boston, Atlanta and Seattle. freight railroads have reported strong profits in recent years, helped by higher prices and steady business in transporting everything from automobiles to fertilizer.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 15-19, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Port of Los Angeles and GE Transportation launch solution to digitize maritime shipping. Supply Vision Launches New Transportation Management System Software, Supply Vision 3.0. “The ShipRush team brings deep domain expertise in e-commerce and parcel shipping to Descartes,” said Edward J.

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Logistics in the City

Enterra Insights

Dekker reports, “[In] Amsterdam, large logistics companies aren’t allowed to ship directly to people’s front doors. Calvert reports, “Seattle is developing an app-based system to help trucks find open loading spaces.” Other cities are trying to reduce curbside congestion by designating all-day loading zones.