Managing supply chain risk is a daily challenge for both parties in a logistics outsourcing partnership. The strategies to manage risk typically include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effec...
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3PL Outsourcing
Social media is here to stay…at least until the next big thing comes along. Not too long ago, CPG companies struggled to prepare themselves for the electronic age. Now, companies do everything they can just to keep up. Smart companies conti...
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Supply Chain Challenges
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Logistics Technology
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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.
Leadership, whether in logistics, food manufacturing, or crayon making, comes down to individuals. People make a company successful. People who are invested in the company make the difference. This is one of the characteristics of a "great...
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Supply Chain Challenges
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Logistics Labor Management
As a candidate attending Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, I learned what it meant to be a leader with the help of the Six Troop-Leading Steps, commonly referred to as BAMCIS. My Sergeant Instructors (Dri...
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Supply Chain Challenges
One of the most important things to understand is that logistics leaders, and all leaders, are role models. Everyone is always watching what you do and how you handle things. Associates, peers, subordinates, and superiors feed off of this. ...
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Supply Chain Challenges
I recently returned to the cold and snowy northeast from an industry event in Florida. The main topic (and it seems like it is the main topic at all these events) is collaboration. More specifically, how goals in conflict hinder collabora...
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Supply Chain Challenges
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Freight Transportation
With U.S. e-Commerce sales as a percent of total retail sales growing at a whopping 17% pace annually (U.S. Census), manufacturers are scrambling to design their e-Commerce supply chains to be optimally efficient. For many, the e-Commerce ...
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Supply Chain Challenges
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Ecommerce Fulfillment
I often reflect on growing up thinking about how my dad helped mold me into the person I am today. I fondly remember him saying many times… "There is more than one way to skin a cat." One of his other favorite sayings was "C'mon, Ed, use ...
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