For many consumer product manufacturers, the Northeast is a critically important market. It makes sense to develop close partnerships with carriers that can provide superior service to grocery chains and mass retailers in this market. Let’s...
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Freight Transportation
The industrial real estate market has changed dramatically in the last year. Today, it’s a seller’s market and power users of warehouse space, like large CPG companies, don’t have the same ability they once had to access the space they need...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Warehouse Operations
The Ultimate Guide to Being a Great 3PL Customer
This paper summarizes the results of an industry survey of logistics executives on the strategies they employ for managing labor in the distribution center.
Safety In Logistics Operations
4 strategies to turn safety from a compliance-driven chore to a profit-driving opportunity.
Manufacturers and retailers outsource distribution for a variety of reasons. Cost savings and service level improvements top the list. Flexibility, risk mitigation and access to technology are some of the other benefits they seek. To achiev...
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Manufacturers and retailers who outsource distribution activities to third-party logistics companies (3PLs) understand that there is a certain amount of churn among warehouse workers. But just how much churn is something they should be payi...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Logistics Labor Management
Despite the global pandemic, Kane Logistics’ operations team has been in major start-up mode for the last year, with several new logistic operations coming on board. All facilities have started successfully and on schedule. But that success...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Contract Packaging
During the COVID-19 pandemic, warehouse worker protection has emerged as a critical core competency for corporate logistics departments and their 3PL partners. Business continuity literally depends upon it since a virus outbreak could close...
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Topics:
Logistics Safety
Billions of dollars of product are lost each year to product and packaging damage in the grocery industry. Product damage is a particularly severe profit drain for wine and spirits manufacturers trying to keep a fragile product intact durin...
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Topics:
Warehouse Operations,
Wine & spirits
As 2020 winds down, we took at look at the year’s top logistics blog posts that most wound you up. In case you missed them the first time, here are the three KANE-published articles that attracted the most readers. They touch on different t...
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Topics:
Consumer Goods Logistics
