Other than inventory, labor is your biggest warehousing expense. And that warehouse labor… well, it's costing you a lot more than you may think. According to salary.com, the average warehouse associate's salary is about $28,000. But many...
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Topics:
Consumer Goods Logistics,
Logistics Labor Management
Damage losses and claims increase your transportation costs and can also damage your relationship with shipping partners. To reduce freight damage, monitor claims closely and take proactive steps to continuously drive down damage incidents...
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Topics:
Freight Transportation
The Ultimate Guide to Being a Great 3PL Customer
This quick-read eBook lists 12 best practices designed to elicit greatness from your 3PL.
Safety In Logistics Operations
4 strategies to turn safety from a compliance-driven chore to a profit-driving opportunity.
The bar has been raised on logistics performance. Retail customers want perfect orders (expect a fine if they’re not perfect), and they want them faster and delivered within tighter and tighter time windows. As a logistics manager, the spo...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Warehouse Operations,
3PL Outsourcing,
KANE Company News
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are getting squeezed. On one side, your retail customers want smaller replenishment orders more frequently. At the same time, your own company is pressuring you to reduce logistics costs.
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Topics:
Consumer Goods Logistics,
Food and Beverage Logistics
Affiliates of Harkness Capital Partners have agreed to make an investment in Kane Is Able, Inc. to support KANE’s growth strategy of expanding its services and national presence.
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Topics:
KANE Company News
In our “Dispatches from the Road” feature, the KANE blog will periodically publish interviews with our drivers – the men and women who live and breathe the transportation topics we often write about. In our newest installment, we interview...
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Topics:
KANE Company News,
Freight Transportation,
Truck Drivers
Specific consumer products look exactly the same when they roll off the manufacturing line. To satisfy retailer requirements, however, these identical products are wrapped, sealed, tied and packed in dozens, even hundreds, of different way...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Contract Packaging
Freight capacity has historically been viewed as a commodity. The onus has been on the trucking company to position itself as the customer’s “carrier of choice.” But if you haven’t noticed, that’s changing. The combination of a growing U.S....
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Topics:
Freight Transportation
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