Distribution network optimization has become a white-hot topic these days as “the Amazon effect” leads businesses to evaluate how quickly they can get products to customers. Warehouse optimization modeling exercises examine the upside of be...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Logistics Technology,
Warehouse Operations,
3PL Outsourcing,
Freight Transportation
Owner-operators are freedom-loving entrepreneurs. They own their trucks and want to earn a good living, while remaining independent. Some may choose to hunt profitable freight on load boards, while others align with carriers to provide dedi...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Freight Transportation,
Truck Drivers
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.
Lean warehousing quality improvement programs have driven billions of dollars’ worth of value across corporate supply chains. They are the road map to faster, better and cheaper. But, if you’re not careful, these programs can become weighed...
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Topics:
Logistics Technology,
Warehouse Operations
Listen. React. Listen. React. Listen. React. These two words summarize the day of many customer service representatives (CSRs) across the world.
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
3PL Outsourcing
When it comes to product packaging, primary packaging deals with the first layer of packaging that directly contacts the product. Secondary co-packing services refers to the next layer of packaging used to group various pre-packaged product...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges
In logistics, we measure just about everything. If it moves, we measure how fast. If it sits, we measure how long. If it costs money, we measure how much. But do we ever measure happy? Not often, if at all. And that’s too bad. Happy is an u...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Warehouse Operations,
3PL Outsourcing,
KANE Company News
Talk to 3PLs about Amazon’s incursion into the logistics services space and many are either dismissive or scared. We don’t see it that way. We think Amazon is a very positive, albeit disruptive, force within our industry. The continued grow...
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Topics:
3PL Outsourcing
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies face a constant battle for market share and retail shelf space. Price points are a key weapon in this battle and, increasingly, companies rely on lean CPG logistics operations to provide a cost advant...
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Topics:
Consumer Goods Logistics
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