Parcel Contract Negotiation: Optimize Your Company’s Shipping Costs
Learn how much money you can save by effective small parcel carrier negotiation, and find out how this process works.
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How the UPS-Teamster Deal Impacts Shipping Costs for Businesses
UPS and the Teamsters Union have avoided a work stoppage and signed a new contract — what could that mean for your upcoming shipping expenses?
Streamlining Supply Chain Operations With Cutting-Edge Business Intelligence and Data Insights
Learn what business intelligence and analytics can mean for the supply chain, and discover how these solutions have evolved to deliver ever-greater value.
Unraveling the Chain: The Lingering Disruptions in 2023’s Global Supply Chain
Discover some of the lingering and new issues you’ll have to overcome to run an efficient organization-wide supply chain in 2023 and beyond.
The Power of Big Data Analytics in the Supply Chain
Learn how the right approach to data use and business intelligence can deliver previously invisible value to your logistics operations.
E-Commerce Surge: A Catalyst for Supply Chain Transformation
E-commerce has expanded enormously in the past few years. Have you optimized your company’s supply chain relationships in that time?
Peaking At the Wrong Time
As businesses around the country gear up for a Holiday Season that seems to come earlier and earlier every year, carriers are also preparing for the busy times ahead. Both UPS and FedEx have announced their Peak Season Surcharges for the upcoming festive period, and as usual, they’re a doozy. While annual GRI’s and Peak …
Bid Management: Three Steps to a Better Contract
In the latest report from the Logistics Manager’s Index, data from around the country indicates that transportation capacity continues to increase, a massive shift from the previous two years when carriers were struggling to keep up with demand. Coupled with the fact that inventory doesn’t seem to be a problem right now, this trend leaves …
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Supply Chain Analytics: What Is It, And How Does It Work?
What Is Supply Chain Analytics? Gathering data these days is not hard. Digital tools are everywhere, collecting information constantly. Today, we measure and codify almost everything about ourselves and the world around us. Sharing that data is also relatively easy. There are more communication channels available and accessible today than ever before, by far. The …
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Trusting Your Logistics Partner
The Importance of Trust As human beings, trust is fundamental to a successful life. From forming and maintaining relationships in our personal lives, to achieving our annual goals in the professional world, everything is built on trust. We rely on trust in ourselves and the people around us just to get through the day. But …