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2020 Reading Guide
It’s time to open up that book you’ve been meaning to read. These titles will help you catch up on the latest deep dives into the world of logistics.
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The Ultimate RFP Checklist for Shippers: Essential Things to Include in Every Bid
When it comes to creating a successful request for proposal (RFP), it’s all about dotting your i’s and crossing your t’s. The clearer your RFP, the easier it will be for third-party logistics (3PL) providers to understand your requirements and provide the information you need to make an informed selection.
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Ship More, Pay Less: Controlling Transportation Costs
Better matching demand to supply and adjusting contracts, tendering, and invoice auditing strategies can help control transportation costs when rates are on the rise.
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3PLs Do It All
Third-Party logistics providers are building future-proof supply chains, filling their toolbox with business insights, predictive capabilities, and other new solution sets.
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Supply Chain Predictions 2020
Industry leaders look to the future, offering advice and strategies to help you successfully navigate the year ahead.
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Small Ports, Big Benefits
Smaller, lesser-known ports often deliver substantial benefits to shippers, letting them bypass congestion while leveraging advanced technology. Here are seven reasons to consider these less-trafficked cargo destinations.
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6 Supply Chain Risks Worth Taking
From technology investments that stretch budgets to supply chain partnerships that share proprietary information, these moves may give small businesses pause. Here’s why they should dive right in.
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Charging the Electronics Supply Chain
Electronics suppliers, distributors, and retailers address high-voltage challenges—from shorter product life cycles to price erosion and unpredictable tariffs—with technology and changing business processes.
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Applying Lean Thinking to Procurement
How to slate demand and supply initiatives and techniques into your procurement strategies.
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2020 Global Trade: It’s a Whole New World
From tariffs and trade wars to new trade agreements and updated INCOTERMS, 2020 is shaping up to be an interesting year for global shippers.
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Winning Moves for the Last Mile
With direct sales on the rise, retailers seek fast and efficient ways to deliver product over the threshold and into customers’ hands.
Read MoreMost Read Articles of 2019
These Inbound Logistics articles caught your eye and claimed your clicks. From weaving sustainable practices into your supply chain to revealing how Impossible Burger met impossibly high demands, here is the 2019 content that got you buzzing.
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What if General George Patton was Walmart’s CEO?
General Patton would survey the e-commerce battlefield where Walmart competes and conduct a threat assessment of every major competitor, especially Amazon.
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Come Together: Logistics and the Sharing Economy
Logistics embraces the sharing economy with supply chain collaborations, industry crossovers, and unexpected partnerships, bringing fulfillment and transportation efficiencies.
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Reshaping the Supply Chain: How New Strategies, Goals & Technologies are Altering Supply Chain Operations
Picture trucking in the United States minus interstate highways. Global trade without shipping containers. Supply chain management with no internet.
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Behind The Scenes Of Today’s Leading Supply Chains
Inbound Logistics pulls back the curtain on supply chain best practices.
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The CX Files
The truth is out there. Technology tools offer mindbending ways to delight retailers and their customers. And there’s no conspiracy about that.
Read MoreTen Most Read Articles of 2020
COVID-19 Resets: Logistics Draws the Line JUNE 2020 How the pandemic brought out the best in many people as well as the logistics and supply chain organizations they work with and for. bit.ly/COVIDResets Logistics Workforce of the Future JULY 2020 As North American manufacturing enters a “new normal,” how will the logistics and supply chain […]
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Hunger Games: Managing Food Logistics Challenges When Demand Spikes
Since it hit restaurants in January 2019, the Impossible Burger, which is made from plants but offers the taste and texture of beef, has been on a roll. When the company launched in Gelson’s Markets in southern California, the Impossible Burger zoomed to the top spot among packaged goods, outselling the next most popular product […]
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A Hire Purpose: 11 Strategies to Recruit Supply Chain Talent
Competition has never been tougher to obtain supply chain talent, forcing companies to rethink recruitment tactics.
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