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How to Find Savings Through Landed Cost Analysis
A global trade management (GTM) solution can automate the process of comparing total landed costs, providing shippers with full visibility into all associated costs and regulations.
How to Manage the Supply Chain Following a Natural Disaster
Planning for exceptions can help shippers prevent supply chain disruptions in the wake of a natural disaster.
How to Make Driver Recruitment a Competitive Differentiator
Whether a company is looking to reduce driver turnover costs or vet a business partner to make sure it has the necessary resources to deliver acceptable customer service, maintaining a dedicated recruitment and retention strategy communicates a strong message both internally and within the extended value chain.
How to Move Freight in Volatile Locations
Successfully moving freight into challenging areas requires an abundance of preparation and due diligence, test runs, and contingency plans to make sure moves happen without a hitch.
How to Reduce Costs by Integrating Packaging with Distribution Center Operations
Performing final product packaging in the distribution center can reduce combined warehousing, logistics, and freight costs by 30 percent and order-to-delivery cycle times by seven days.
How to Foster a Long-Term 3PL Partnership
The value of third-party logistics (3PL) provider partnerships grows infinitely greater when shippers take a long-term approach that focuses on sustainable gains rather than short-term savings.
How to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions
When supply chain disruptions arise, shippers need to react quickly—without incurring undue costs—to keep production in line with demand.
How to Drive Visibility Through a Supply Chain Network Control Tower
Shippers can create a "control tower" view within their own supply chains—a common platform for aggregating, cleansing, and communicating real-time data.
How to Measure Sustainability Program Performance
Many companies are considering ways to improve fleet fuel efficiency and establish sustainability standards they can measure, then improve upon.
How to Select a Returns Management Partner
Many companies turn to third-party logistics (3PL) providers to help manage returns processing. Selecting the right reverse logistics provider can help retain customers and save money.
How to Ship in Alaska
The variety of cargoes that fly in and out of Alaska—ranging from time-sensitive medical supplies and oil field equipment to perishable seafood—means companies must identify specific shipment needs and align them with asset and service requirements.
How to Balance Export Demand
Shifting global trade dynamics and emerging export markets with explosive growth potential present U.S. growers and other industries with new challenges—as well as opportunities to create more efficient solutions.
How to Improve Maritime Cargo Security
Shippers can ensure ocean cargo security by taking steps such as using C-TPAT checklists, performing random container inspections, applying security seals, shipping through secured ports, conducting security training, and following U.S. Customs and Border Protection guidelines.
How to Benefit from SaaS TMS
Transportation and logistics technology solutions such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) transportation management systems (TMS) enrich and empower the user community by integrating partners and aggregating data.
How to Manage Peak Season Variability
Unpredictable consumer habits, the economic downturn, and limited ocean carrier capacity have transformed the traditional peak shipping season. Now shippers are preparing for a new reality: peak season variability.
How to Evaluate a 3PL Partner
Shippers, carriers, and small intermediaries that rely on third-party logistics (3PL) service providers to manage non-core logistics and supply functions, access capacity, and tap technology capabilities must review 3PL performance periodically to ensure quality service.
How to Ensure Successful Transportation of Your Project Cargo
Project logistics presents unique transportation challenges. Moving project cargo requires collaborative partnership, attention to detail, and constant communication across the supply chain.
How to Select Expedited Services
Shippers must consider multiple factors when they work with service providers to move expedited freight.
How to Drive Collaborative Distribution
Collaborative distribution lets manufacturers, especially consumer product goods (CPG) companies, merge loads destined for the same end point to maximize trucking efficiency.
How to Develop a Direct-to-Store Delivery Model
A Direct-to-Store Delivery (DSD) delivery model helps consumer goods manufacturers gain speed and increase inventory turns.
How to Find the Best EDI Solution For Your Operations
Electronic data interchange (EDI) technology and infrastructure is adapting to help businesses more quickly and accurately share information within the corporation and across the supply chain.
How to Enable a Proactive Supply Chain
Transaction and shipment exceptions are common, so businesses must be able to account for these variables by enabling a proactive supply chain.
How to Leverage Rail/Intermodal For Refrigerated Freight
The emergence of refrigerated container units provides more cost-effective rail and intermodal shipping for perishable and temperature-sensitive goods.
How to Ship to Alaska
The key to successful shipping in Alaska is to partner with a transportation provider that knows how to manage Alaska’s many obstacles.
How to Select a Transportation Management Solution
Selecting a new transportation management solution (TMS), whether fully outsourced, hosted, or internally installed, requires much due diligence to pair functional need with strategic vision.
How to Ship Air Freight in Alaska
Moving cargo by air in Alaska requires expertise in transportation and logistics management.
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