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Back to Basics in 2007 - 3PL Defined

Blog on Log

If you are planning on implementing a 3PL partnership, read my tips about how to implement a 3PL game plan successfully…there are plenty within my blog from 2006 and 2005. Good luck in all of your 2007 endeavors! More later this January!

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

Read if you’re interested in: The growth of express shipping…and how a core group of dedicated founders can tip the scales of success and help grow a killer logistics company. Read if you’re interested in: 14 actually helpful tips for how manufacturing processes can be improved…and how logistics can play a critical role in making it happen.

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The Ins and Out of Employee Tip Credit

Mazars Ledger

Tip reporting is one of the most difficult issues faced by restaurateurs. Tip income is subject to its own set… The post The Ins and Out of Employee Tip Credit appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States.

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Understanding container weight misdeclaration

Shipping and Freight Resource

January 2007: MSC Napoli : “ About 660 containers stowed on deck, which had remained dry, were also weighed. February 2007: Container ship MV Limari in Damietta : Container stack collapsed due to stack overweight. The weights of 137 (20%) of these containers were more than 3 tonnes different from their declared weights.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

Research indicates that up to 75% of firms report positive impacts from outsourcing to logistics service providers (Langley J, Capgemini 2007). Over the last 10-15 years, outsourcing of logistics activities to third-party logistics service providers has become increasingly popular. But what of the balance?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

I figured, we pepper in some tips on transportation management, but if we also offer value to manufacturers, they would turn to us as the experts. Unfortunately, the passion began to fall through when the oldest millennials entered the workforce in 2007 and saw a huge economic collapse in 2008. Economic Instability.

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Carbon Offsets Should Be Part of a Sustainability Program

10xLogistics

Yes, as Marc Gunther mentions, carbon offsets are so 2007. The carbon which brought us to 400ppm was catastrophic ( see where some say 350ppm was the tipping point ) and the marginal cost should have been astronomical. And that leads you to build out a very detailed sustainability practice regardless of the immediate payback.

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