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Sealing the Deal: The Art of Balanced Shipper-Carrier Contracts
When shippers and carriers understand each other’s priorities, they can more effectively craft contracts that ensure handshake harmony for everyone.
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From Dynamic Updates to AI: How Tech Turbocharges Last-Mile Delivery
Gone are the days of consumers gazing out the window waiting for a delivery to show up. Tech innovations make it faster and cheaper for shippers to deliver their products to the doorstep, while enhancing the customer experience.
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Looking to Scale & Flex Your Supply Chain? 3PLs Don’t Toy Around
When you’re ready to play, 3PLs are the hit of the day, making sure supply chains stay scalable, flexible, and resilient.
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Synching Up for Demand-Driven Supply Chains
A demand-driven supply chain can help organizations glide through the choppy waters of today’s business challenges. It takes close collaboration and teamwork across the entire value chain to get there.
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2024 Inbound Logistics Perspectives 3PL Market Research Report
Third-party logistics (3PL) providers are adapting to tougher-than-usual times these days. The industry has seen revenues fall, and demand for 3PL services isn’t growing at the pace we’ve seen in recent years. Also unfolding: Challenges such as inflation, high taxes, and government regulation increase costs for 3PLs. Those are some of the insights that uncoil […]
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Watch as Inbound Logistics Reveals the Top 10 3PLs of 2024
Inbound Logistics’ highly anticipated 2024 Top 10 3PLs Readers’ Choice Excellence Awards list is here! The prestigious Top 10 3PLs are selected by reader voting—and this year, we received more than 12,500 votes on our platform. Readers cast ballots for their favorite 3PLs based on a high degree of satisfaction with service, cost, and technology […]
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Readying the Supply Chain Workforce
Educators reveal how they’re preparing future supply chain management professionals for growing complexity and advancing technology.
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Circular Supply Chains Go Round and Round
Circular supply chains can be resilient and sustainable, and can help meet growing demand for environmentally friendly products. But shifting from linear to circular supply chains requires intense research to determine how best to reuse many materials, implement new technology and processes, optimize returned goods, and educate suppliers and customers on circularity’s challenges and benefits.
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From Earnings to Ergonomics: Optimizing Warehouse Labor
As warehouse labor plays hard to get, organizations turn to a growing range of tools and technologies to support worker safety, boost their productivity, and make their jobs easier, more efficient, and even more enjoyable.
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Supply Chain Resilience: Overcoming the Obstacles
Organizations draw on resilience planning and impactful technology for the strength to resist the challenges of lengthy supply chains and ongoing disruptions.
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2024 IL Market Research: Logistics IT Steps Up
IL’s annual report illuminates how companies are increasing supply chain technology investments to become more efficient and light up return-on-investment.
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Global Trade Compliance: How to Play by the Rules
Complex government requirements will create new impacts for many shippers in 2024. Which rules and regulations affect your business, and what steps should you take right now to comply?
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Taking a Peek at Peak Season
It’s never too early to prepare for the holiday peak season, especially with disruptions mounting amid solid consumer spending. Shippers and carriers are employing automation, data-based decision making, and smart inventory management strategies—and tapping into lessons learned from last year—to get into position for 2024.
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Supply Chain Career Hacks
Supply chain management professors and practitioners share advice and strategies for leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to boost your skill set and supercharge your career trajectory.
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To Catch a Thief: 5 Ways to Boost Cargo Security
With cargo thefts surging, bolstered by sophisticated new tech-based methods, it has never been more important for shippers and their partners to emphasize security best practices.
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Ports Update: New Strategies for a New Age
In the post-pandemic era, U.S. ports are steering new courses toward improving sustainability, collaboration, and infrastructure efforts.
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13 Top Benefits of Automating Your Supply Chain
From attracting talent to boosting visibility, here are the advantages you gain from automating some or all of your supply chain.
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U.S. Site Selection: How to Know Where to Go
Finding the right location to grow your distribution or manufacturing network can be tricky. Here are 8 tried-and-true tips to get you to the right place.
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White-Glove Delivery: Giving Your Shipments the Red-Carpet Treatment
When a shipment needs VIP treatment, retailers give white-glove delivery services a royal welcome.
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Getting to Big: SMBs Embrace Tech and Partnerships
Logistics can sometimes be challenging for small businesses that frequently have limited resources and a laser focus on core competencies. But with the right technologies and partners, SMBs can develop—and execute—supply chain strategies on par with even the largest players.
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