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Achieving Significant Transportation Savings through Improved Demand Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. Pinnacle Propane is based out of Irving, Texas. Pinnacle Propane was founded in 2010 through the acquisition of several retail propane companies in Central, South and West Texas.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

The joint press release points out the technology’s ability to build palletized loads of department-sorted inventory and its strategic role in supporting Walmart’s goal of modernizing its vast supply chain network and allowing the company to transform its regional distribution centers to provide faster responsiveness to store orders.

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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

The staff at the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) note, however, that the logistics industry plays an “out-sized — and often underappreciated — role … within the greater transportation ecosystem.”[1] By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas.

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Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth

ToolsGroup

Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. Department of Commerce International Trade Commission , the percentage of retail sales sourced from ecommerce is predicted to increase into 2024–well beyond the lockdowns that caused the initial rise in ecommerce spend.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

A company can choose to maintain a high level of costly inventory to ensure short lead times, and a family can decide to live farther away from work and school but buy a bigger house. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that!

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Parcel Carrier Fuel Surcharges Expected to Rise, Here’s What Shippers Should Know

Intelligent Audit

With fuel required across all forms of transportation, parcel carrier fuel surcharges are growing. The factors driving parcel carrier fuel surcharges include: E-commerce growth – When the pandemic brought home millions of Americans in late 2019 and early 2020, e-commerce became the source for every real need.

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The Impact of Collaborative TMS on Supply Chains Bottom Line

Turvo

It is a new shipper-carrier collaboration approach to enhance supply chain visibility, reducing transit times, and inventory-carrying costs for retailers and suppliers while improving carrier asset utilization levels. . As a result, there is often excessive inventory and under-utilized carrier capacity.