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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Consumer Goods Logistics
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Food and Beverage Logistics
As CPG suppliers follow their large retailer customers into the uncharted territory of e-tailing and increasingly lean supply chains, compliance with retailers’ transportation routing guides is a make-or-break element in the ongoing relatio...
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Consumer Goods Logistics
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Food and Beverage Logistics
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.
As the truck capacity pinch grows tighter and tighter, you may have found yourself in a role reversal with your carriers. Freight transport is now largely a seller’s market and, as a shipper, you may find yourself vying to be a “shipper of ...
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Supply Chain Challenges
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Consumer Goods Logistics
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Freight Transportation
As the new year begins at KANE, we have a stiff breeze at our back thanks to momentum established during an exciting and eventful 2017. Here’s a quick look back at the last 12 months.
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Supply Chain Challenges
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Consumer Goods Logistics
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KANE Company News
I loved reading the news recently about Hostess Brands going public. Score one for supply chain operations, although this aspect of Hostess’s resurgence gets little mention in media coverage of this story. That’s the invisible industry hard...
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Consumer Goods Logistics
Marketing is from Mars and Logistics is from Venus -- at least when it comes to trade promotion management.
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Consumer Goods Logistics
KANE recently completed research on the retail supply chain with supply chain executives at both retailers and suppliers. The aim of the research was to identify the biggest alignment gaps between retailers and suppliers. Read a summary o...
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Consumer Goods Logistics
What if air traffic control failed to communicate arrival time changes on inbound flights? Gate personnel would not be there to allow passengers to deplane. Baggage would sit for hours in the plane’s belly. Refueling would not occur, delayi...
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Consumer Goods Logistics
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