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De Minimis Value: Your Essential Guide to International Trade Regulations

ShipBob

Properly classifying goods and paying tariffs are essential to prevent packages getting stuck in customs and potential fines. Optimize packaging: Reduce shipping costs by optimizing packaging to be lightweight and compact. Opting for DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) shipping can simplify this.

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Barcoding and Inventory Management – the Ultimate Guide

Unleashed

In this guide to barcodes in inventory management: In order to apply barcodes to inventory management, it is important to understand the basics of the barcode system. Hence, some companies will find corded barcode scanners to be all they need, where other companies require wireless scanners to support their online inventory management.

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How Sustainability Will Fundamentally Change Your Supply Chain

BlueYonder

This touches almost every aspect of supply chain in every industry: from ethical sourcing to incorporating recyclability into the design, to biodegradable packaging materials, to end-to-end supply chains that can lower waste, buffer, and excess and obsolete inventory.

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Inventory management. Founded in 2015, Arka is dedicated to helping businesses curate a custom brand experience through sustainable packaging materials.

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Reducing Food Waste

Elementum

trillion per year, about the same as the 2016 GDP of the United Kingdom. In developing countries, food loss is significantly higher in the early stages of production mainly due to poor storage, packaging, and transport facilities as well as inefficient harvesting and processing techniques. Packaging company It’s Fresh!

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Food Industry Trends for 2021

Unleashed

A significant growth in the use of food manufacturing software that allows for real-time inventory, batch tracking and rapid order fulfilment. Sustainable food packaging is still a priority for customers. Current trends in food packaging. A few other food packaging trends to look out for include: Interactive packaging.

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Reducing Food Waste

Elementum

trillion per year, about the same as the 2016 GDP of the United Kingdom. In developing countries, food loss is significantly higher in the early stages of production mainly due to poor storage, packaging, and transport facilities as well as inefficient harvesting and processing techniques. Packaging company It’s Fresh!