What if I said you could cut your packaging-related costs by 25% without changing your packaging? It's possible, but it requires a significant shift in the way many CPG companies manage final packaging. Specifically, it means performing fi...
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Supply Chain Challenges
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Contract Packaging
KANE teamed up with top supply chain researchers, Peerless Research Group, to survey logistics executives on the strategies they employ for managing labor in the distribution center. The results of that research are summarized in this repor...
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Topics:
Logistics Labor Management
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.
When it comes to third party logistics support, would you rather work with:
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Topics:
3PL Outsourcing
It’s hard to be invisible. One day last week, I sat in my office for hours thinking “be invisible…be invisible…. be invisible…” But when people walked by and said “Hi Alex,” I knew it wasn’t working.
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Few phenomena have had more of an impact in recent years than social media. At its core, social media connects people with similar interests. It facilitates interactions with people “like me.” There is a strong “like me” component to colla...
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Topics:
3PL Outsourcing
If you’re 5’7” with a vertical leap of about an inch and a half, a career as a professional basketball player is likely not in the cards. Smaller shippers might feel the same way. You can’t fill a trailer with your volume, so the faster, ...
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Topics:
Freight Transportation
Retailers today face an opportunity to save millions of dollars a year, simply by fixing a structural flaw built into most retail supply chains. That same fix can drastically lower carbon emissions.
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Continuous improvement is an important desire for users of 3PL services. Top 3PLs, and in fact most 3PLs, do a solid job establishing metrics and measuring progress against these metrics over time.
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Topics:
3PL Outsourcing
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