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How to Reduce Shipping Costs: 8 Effective Ways

Ware2Go

Learn how to meet expectations without sacrificing bottom line revenue with these 8 simple tips. For example, a package sent 2,000 miles through USPS from Seattle to Tulsa would be Zone 8. To learn more about how Ware2Go can help you reduce shipping costs, please reach out to one of our shipping optimization experts.

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Distribution Center Robots: How Robots Continue to Power the Distribution Center

GlobalTranz

How to Successfully Implement Robotics in Your Distribution Center Formerly Kiva robots, Amazon robots are no longer for sale to third parties, but that does not mean a company cannot take advantage of other robotics manufacturers. It’s a winning equation that has enabled Amazon to become the leader in the rapidly-growing e-commerce sector.

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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. It’s so successful that the team even offers other people tours of its Halewood plant to show them how to benefit from lean manufacturing principles.

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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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Smart Cities and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Enterra Insights

So aside from being a global health crisis, the coronavirus has effectively become an experiment in how to monitor and control people at scale.”[4] Transportation : It may take a while for people to return using public transportation because rush hour usage places them too close to others.

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Embracing the rules: Incoterms® 2020

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Incoterms® are used to allocate transport costs, show where risk passes from a seller to a buyer, as well as clearly define the responsibilities for export and customs clearance, not to mention identify who must purchase insurance if required (and at what level), from origin through destination. . No one in the U.S.