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You Should Be Asking What You Left on the Table!
You can’t assume medium and large companies have “best practices” because they are large, and they must have grown to that size because they are efficient and make great decisions.
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Key Factors to Consider When Choosing a WMS for Your 3PL Business
Third-party logistics companies need much more than a typical WMS to handle inventory. They need a strong warehouse management system that is actually the brain of the warehouse.
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ProTrans Provides a Sustainability Solution with Strategic Partnership
The strategic collaboration between ProTrans International and ClearFlame helped an automotive supplier reduce fossil fuel consumption, GHG emissions, and realize significant savings in fuel costs.
Read MoreWhy Your Company’s Future Depends on Carrier Development
The relationships that companies have with their carriers play a key role in their long-term success. In this RFP season, the emphasis on dedicated freight will further underline the importance of these partnerships.
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Conveyor Upgrade Increases Warehouse Efficiencies and Order Volume Capacity
MD Logistics implemented a tailored conveyor solution in its warehouse to serve clients in the life sciences and pharmaceuticals industry. The new configuration boosts flexibility, efficiency, and output.
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How Santa Can Amp Up Your Battery Storage
Here’s how to address your battery storage issues before the next peak season to ensure you’re a Santa and not a Grinch.
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Highlighting DC Efficiency
Consumer demand for order fulfillment speed and accuracy highlights the central role distribution centers now play in the supply chain. DCs are stepping up by tapping into sophisticated technology and resources to transform and optimize operations and boost efficiencies.
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Supply Chains Champion AI and Other Technologies for Sustainability, Efficiency Gains
Key findings from the 2023 MHI Annual Report, “The Responsible Supply Chain,” highlight artificial intelligence as the most impactful technology for supply chains.
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Freight APIs Put the Power of LTL Data at the Industry’s Fingertips
LTL freight APIs (application programming interfaces) aren’t just for industry giants. Small to mid-sized companies can benefit from the power of LTL API connectivity.
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How to Make a Site Selection Slam Dunk
Your best shot for finding the right site for your distribution center, warehouse, or manufacturing facility? Court these moves and zone in on these resources for winning plays.
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3PLs Keep IT Together
Serving as the glue that holds everything together in the supply chain, third-party logistics providers inject technology tools, advanced capabilities, and exacting attention to detail into the services they provide shippers. Here’s how they seal the deal.
Read MoreLogistics Technology—Selecting the Right Data Solution
Shippers can generate measurable value from the right data and analytics investments. When applied to logistics and supply chain processes, productivity levels can increase while freight spend declines.
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Cloud-Based Freight Procurement Solution Helps 3PL Optimize RFP Events
A large third-party logistics provider turned to SMC³’s freight procurement tool, Bid$ense®, to simplify and streamline the procurement event process. The solution saved the 3PL time and money.
Read MoreHow Freight Management Technology Can Enhance Processes and Relationships
Technology should enhance your transportation experiences, not replace trusted relationships with experienced agents who can strategically deploy technology to ensure that shipments progress smoothly and provide help when necessary.
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Syfan Logistics Provides Safe Harbor for Manufacturer with Drayage Delays
Through front-end service and being available when others aren’t, Syfan Logistics helped a heavy machinery manufacturer avoid millions in losses.
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Accelerate! Conference & Expo: A Unique Event with a Critical Mission
The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) is a non-profit organization with the mission to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments, and minimize obstacles they face. In support of this mission, WIT will host its ninth annual Accelerate! event.
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Beyond the Freight Bill Audit
As freight bill audit and payment expands to transportation spend management, these leading companies deploy advanced technology tools and offer services that transcend traditional freight audit and payment.
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MagicLogic Cube-IQ Plans Loads Faster, Reduces Damages for Arauco
Renowned forest products company Arauco is able to plan loads more quickly with MagicLogic’s Cube-IQ software. Additionally, the company sees claims for damaged loads decrease significantly.
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Port Development Accelerates
Across the United States and much of the world, ports are preparing for a changing future. These leading U.S. ports are upgrading their infrastructure and expanding their cargo handling capabilities.
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Balancing Exception Management and Customer Satisfaction
For ecommerce fulfillment, exceptional customer service is not just about getting orders right but how you handle exceptions when things go awry. It’s critical to have systems to navigate shipment exception challenges and create customer experiences that foster loyalty.
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