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The Benefits of Optimizing Your Warehouse Space
Running a warehouse has never been more demanding. With labor shortages, rising real estate costs, and customers expecting faster fulfillment than ever, the pressure on logistics operations continues to mount. Fortunately, optimizing your warehouse space can address many of these challenges head-on, and the potential benefits are much bigger than many businesses realize. Faster Order […]
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Improving Rotational Inventory Visibility
Managing rotational inventory requires tight coordination between procurement and repair cycles. In many supply chains, especially those handling repairable or reusable assets, even small visibility gaps can create significant operational risks. As inventory moves across multiple locations under strict timelines, delays or inaccuracies can quickly disrupt operations.
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The Hidden ROI of Barcode Verification
For large retailers and manufacturers moving thousands of SKUs and pallets through inbound loading docks every day, barcode quality is a frontline compliance issue, a service-level requirement, and increasingly, a major financial risk.
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Flexible 3PL Strategies Build Resiliency
Managing ongoing disruption in 2026 will be easier for companies that depend on flexible, highly adaptable third-party logistics (3PL) providers for warehousing, fulfillment, distribution, and other supply chain services.
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7 Inventory Management Best Practices for Omnichannel Fulfillment
Accurate visibility, clear allocation rules, and channel-specific processes help retailers and brands fulfill orders more reliably.
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5 Ways to Optimize Returns Handling
Escalating returns are a margin-shrinking problem for U.S. retailers, surging to nearly $850 billion and 15.8% of annual sales in 2025. With hefty return volumes straining warehouse workflows, ecommerce retailers are struggling to keep pace.
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Why Intelligent Supply Chain Execution is the Next Big Advantage
We’re standing at the edge of a new era, where intelligent supply chain execution isn’t just a buzzword but the key to resilience, growth, and competitive advantage.
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Cocoa Volatility Exposes a Blind Spot in Global Supply Chains
Few commodities illustrate the fragility of global supply chains as clearly as cocoa. Over the past two years, the market has moved through one of the most volatile price cycles of the past decade.
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Why Integrated Logistics Facilities Matter
For importers, the most expensive breakdown in the supply chain often isn’t ocean freight or final delivery; it’s what happens in between.
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3 Steps to Improve Visibility and Resilience
Supply chains are no strangers to disruption, but today’s environment is introducing a new level of complexity that manufacturers may have never seen before. For those not prepared, these pressures can quickly expose vulnerabilities across the supply chain.
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No One Moves Freight Alone. IMCs and 3PLs Determine Who Wins.
Freight markets shift in cycles. This one is being driven largely by trucking, not intermodal, with capacity attrition pushing freight to rail. Whether intermodal keeps that freight is a different question, and the answer starts with a function most of the industry still gets wrong. It’s the function that intermodal marketing companies perform every day […]
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Why Growing Companies Wait Too Long to Adopt a TMS (And What it Costs)
Growth is a positive signal that organizations work toward. But what happens when transportation starts absorbing the strain?
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How to Maintain Sustainability, Even During Disruptions
Supply chain disruptions have a way of stripping operations down to their essentials. In these moments, sustainability programs can easily be treated as optional—more of a “nice to have” than a core business necessity. But this is an outdated and strategically perilous mindset.
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What’s One Underrated Leadership Skill in Logistics and Supply Chain Management?
Constraint awareness. Constant market shifts demand prioritization and creative workarounds. Effective leaders target the biggest bottlenecks rather than perfecting every link. By partnering with teams to identify root causes, they resolve issues faster and keep operations moving forward. –Davey Miller Chief Operating Officer CMC Leading through ambiguity. In fast-moving operations, plans break. The strongest leaders […]
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Retailers Are Racing to Beat Tariffs. Is Your Warehouse Network Ready?
The Logistics Managers’ Index came in at 71.1 for June, up 1.6 points from May.
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On-Site Container Storage: A Flexible Answer to the Warehouse Capacity Squeeze
Warehouse space is one of the least flexible lines on a logistics budget. A lease is a multi-year commitment sized to a forecast, yet the demand it serves is rarely steady. Seasonal peaks, promotional surges, new product launches, and the safety stock rebuilt after a supply disruption all push storage requirements up and down on […]
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A Shipper’s Guide to Science-based Securement at High Altitudes
Which mile is more important in the shipping journey–the last mile or the highest mile?
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Demand-Driven: When Pop Outruns Infrastructure
Cool isn’t a forecast. If you want to understand the difference between a high-growth pop business built on a disciplined supply chain management system that effectively matches demand to supply, and one struggling with a tale of inventory woe, look no further than one distribution center operated by Funko. A recent lawsuit against Funko reads […]
Read MoreStrategic Stockpiles: Not the Ultimate Fix
Strategic stockpiles are unlikely to translate into consistently reliable access to supplies for companies. They are best viewed as a buffer that may buy time during a shock and, importantly, contain price volatility—rather than as a standalone sourcing strategy.
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Six Technologies Reshaping Logistics Execution
Faced with rising customer expectations, labor shortages, and increasing pressure to operate sustainably, shippers and their logistics partners can no longer rely on yesterday’s processes. Digital logistics technologies help organizations scale rapidly as modernizing supply chains becomes a non-negotiable, especially in high variability situations like inbound workflows. Companies that embrace this new reality are already […]
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