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Understanding Inventory Tax: An eCommerce Merchant’s Guide

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Everything you need to know about inventory tax. Learn which states collect it, its impact on your business, how to reduce it, and how to leverage fulfillment technology to accurately track and control inventory. Understanding Inventory Tax. Is There a Federal Inventory Tax? How Does Inventory Tax Affect My Business?

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The Pain of Picking the Wrong 3PL with Esther Kestenbaum Prozan

The Logistics of Logistics

A 3PL that manages your DTC shipments has your inventory in their building and in their control. Fulfillment locations include New York, California, New Jersey, Kentucky, Nevada, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Breaking up is costly, emotionally upsetting, and may lead to service failures and dissatisfied customers.

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The Pain of Picking the Wrong 3PL with Esther Kestanbaum Prozan

The Logistics of Logistics

A 3PL that manages your DTC shipments has your inventory in their building and in their control. Fulfillment locations include New York, California, New Jersey, Kentucky, Nevada, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Breaking up is costly, emotionally upsetting, and may lead to service failures and dissatisfied customers.

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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

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With a wide array of products stored in its fulfillment centers, Amazon can consolidate orders and optimize its inventory management systems. To overcome this, Amazon has developed sophisticated inventory management systems that allow them to efficiently store and retrieve products from their fulfillment centers.

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

The simplified assumptions allow companies “to manage margins, supply chain costs, and inventories”, but “it does not enable them to manage enterprise costs, profit, and working capital.” The supply chain model can incorporate this more granular costing by creating customer specific bills of materials and routings. Plan Your Cash Flows!

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Supply Chain Planning and an Uncertain Economy

Arkieva

Too much inventories placing pressure on cutting prices to retain sales. Increased volatility of demand and the desire to maintain low inventory levels creates imbalances, drives inefficiencies, and adds cost. The University of Kentucky will host the 6th Annual Supply Chain Forum on April 1st. Too little disposable income.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

The manufacturer’s private fleet has deployed a fleet of Einride EVs to haul freight between GE Appliances’ inbound warehouses and manufacturing facilities in Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee. In some locations, it’s both technologies on the same truck. Employment at U.S.