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The Future of Commercial Real Estate 2020

3PL Insights

E-commerce continues to see substantial growth year-over-year, being the force driving the industrial and logistics industry. According to the “Industrial and Logistics: 2020 Real Estate Market Outlook” from CBRE, there is higher-than-average lease renewal rate in areas of low vacancy. Louis and Tampa.

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Rocky Mount logistics boosted by direct rail access from the Port of Wilmington

Kanban Logistics

The burgeoning manufacturing and logistics hub of Rocky Mount, NC has received another rail-related boost. The rail terminal offers direct connections to major Midwest hubs like Chicago and St. Many top manufacturers call the region home, including Cummins, Sherwin-Williams, Corning and Bridgestone.

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The Ways Getting Creative With Your Supply Chain Will Save You Time and Money

Quantified Freight

Are you shipping regionally, nationally, or globally? Are you a display manufacturer and need to ship out a big roll-out from St. Louis, MO up into several Northeast states? It’s too large to ship parcel, too small for FTL and too fragile for LTL. It’s more complex than deciding parcel, LTL, or truckload.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

If you are a small or mid-size company in manufacturing, agribusiness, retail or distribution, your transportation spend can be substantial. Shipping cost or ability to deliver. Know the characteristics of your shipping needs such as lanes, quantity, and service levels, and align them with the right carriers. Acknowledgements.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

If you are a small or mid-size company in manufacturing, agribusiness, retail or distribution, your transportation spend can be substantial. Shipping cost or ability to deliver. Know the characteristics of your shipping needs such as lanes, quantity, and service levels, and align them with the right carriers. Acknowledgements.

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Reshoring Optimism, But Not Much Else

GlobalTranz

Although, long term, reshoring makes sense for some, at the end of the day, what reshoring does is remind executives at manufacturing companies to look at the long term, then decide what is best for the company. But this respite does not mean that manufacturing jobs are reappearing. labor force was 35 percent smaller than it is today).

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What Are the 5 Biggest Supply Chain Issues Today?

Stord

Logistics providers have also been slow to adopt new technology. While the rest of the world adopts cloud technologies to help them break down silos and integrate communication, companies continue to use disparate applications and tools for managing orders, evaluating inventory, and shipping goods.