GlobalTranz

MARCH 11, 2019

A lot of shippers blame the high cost of transportation on the carriers, but a lot of carriers agree, if things were packaged differently costs would not be a concern. Of course, you always want to start with trusted transportation on.read More.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 9, 2021

This packaging can be eaten. Ooho: eco-friendly packaging. The London start-up Notpla has created a plastic alternative from seaweed which is biodegradable in order to develop new packaging solutions as an alternative to single-use plastic packaging. Ooho is a flexible packaging for beverages and sauces.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

With what looks to be another challenging year ahead, Antalis Packaging shares why it believes it’s time to invest in carton handling and pallet wrapping equipment. We’ve helped customers to achieve transformations of their business fortunes simply by adding one piece of packaging automation. Sustainability of packaging.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

If that’s you and you’re an ecommerce business owner, keep reading for eco-friendly packaging options your company could invest in this year to save money and help preserve the planet. What is Eco-Friendly Packaging? Why Does Eco-friendly Packaging and Eco-friendly Shipping Matter?

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

If that’s you and you’re an ecommerce business owner, keep reading for eco-friendly packaging options your company could invest in this year to save money and help preserve the planet. What is Eco-Friendly Packaging? Why Does Eco-friendly Packaging and Eco-friendly Shipping Matter?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Avery Dennison Labels and Packaging Materials (LPM) has partnered with Tosca, a global leader in reusable plastic packaging and pooling solutions for the supply chain. Deployments will gradually phase in over the course of 2023.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Whilst that was all going on, the Oh Polly team was also working on a new project – one that it hoped would improve retention rates and customer satisfaction: its packaging. As a pure-play online retailer, Oh Polly’s packaging is a crucial part of its eCommerce strategy. An aesthetic issue. Flexible and fast.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

To develop a method to analyse and contain CO2 consumption and emissions deriving from the automatic packaging processes of Sitma lines with a specific focus on e-commerce solutions and then define a go-to-market strategy. The post Sitma works with university towards packaging sustainability appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

A manufacturer of plastic bags for food packaging that operates a factory in Poland has been using Delta automation technology on its production lines for years. Of course, implementing DIAView was very straightforward since the Delta automation equipment already in operation at the facility was completely compatible.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Jörg Spiekermann, sales manager for palletising and packaging systems in the Consumer Goods area of Beumer Group , knows how to solve individual tasks with standard components. “For our customers, it is often not just a matter of packaging goods simply to protect them from environmental influences,” says Spiekermann.

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Freightera

JANUARY 24, 2023

Follow these simple steps to make sure your cargo is safe during freight shipping If your business ships pallets regularly or occasionally, one or more of these questions has crossed your mind at some point: How do I ensure that my pallets are packaged safely for shipping? They’re the most common packaging type in freight shipping.

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Magaya

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

New Small Parcel Handling Course for Magaya Supply Chain Users Now Available Via PageOne. Many of our customers have taken advantage of the software and hardware Magaya offers to boost package handling volume, increase revenues, and improve service for their customers.

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Ottawa Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2016

By including eco-friendly packaging as part of what your business does to contribute toward green progressions–or just even by beginning here, you can reap rewards beyond just saving the environment that have a lot to do with the smart business-end of things, too. It’s a Win-Win. You can sell the waste-not want-not perk.

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Logistics Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the course of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and especially in recent months, there has been a common theme for many supply chain stakeholders: inventory management and replenishment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My first impression at that time was the mental image it provoked – a delivery truck pulling up to my house and placing a package that I hadn’t ordered on my front door, but ultimately decided to keep. Of course, the progress of Amazon Prime over the last decade has leveled the playing field quite a bit.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 15, 2016

Small package and parcel shipping charges can account for up to 5 percent of a shipper’s total expenses, reports Gary Oswald of PARCEL Media. However, more shippers are taking advantage of the benefits of outsourced small package auditing. Outsourced Small Package Auditing is Faster Than In-House Audits. Auditing of Auditing.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 25, 2024

An item has been purchased online, your 3PL has processed the order and sent instructions to the appropriate fulfillment center, and following the picking, packing, and shipping, the package is now on the final phase of its route. This typically means the ecommerce order is on the ultimate truck that will deliver the package to your customer.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The war on packaging waste is fought on many fronts in the beverage industry – from the manufacturers of packaging materials to the bottler. The way to produce ever more sustainable primary and secondary packaging involves two major lines of approach: recycle and reduce. He explains what he means in the following example.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 23, 2018

DIM weight is calculated by multiplying the length, width, and height of a package and then dividing that result by a special number known as a “dimensional weight divisor,” “DIM divisor,” or “DIM factor.” Big things come in small packages One reaction a shipper may have to the DIM rating challenge is to overreact.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2019

An interview with the WFP Food Safety & Quality Unit’s packaging expert A packaging engineer? knowing how to optimize packaging can be, quite literally, a lifesaver. To mark World Food Day, which shines the spotlight on the issue of food waste, I sit over a coffee with WFP’s packaging expert Carole Manceau.

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Stord

MAY 15, 2024

For those unfamiliar, dwell time refers to the gap between a 3PL or fulfillment provider’s marking an order as “shipped, ” and the moment a shipping carrier actually scans the package into its system and truly begins to move the package. But it’s not that simple.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 27, 2016

Reusable packaging may be the one most effective way you can manage your costs better. It seems that no matter what industry you are in there is more and more buzz about the advantages of using reusable packaging and rightfully so. Reusable packaging goes far beyond just reducing packaging costs. The Evidence.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Additionally, the emphasis on sustainability will drive the adoption of sustainable logistics practices, such as reducing fuel consumption in the ‘last mile’ by eliminating mis-shipments, using electric vehicles and optimising packaging to reduce waste. “Businesses that scenario plan effectively will stay the course.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Amazon has already taken extensive steps to establish itself as a leader in full truckload, less than truckload, multimodal, small package and last-mile delivery services. Although this sounds great for most industries, it represents a major problem for the freight trucking industry.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While many business owners are aware of the negative effects of damaged goods and packages, many still struggle to understand what freight damage is, how it occurs, and how to mitigate risks. Imagine the long journey your package has gone to reach your doorstep. Imagine the long journey your package has gone to reach your doorstep.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 5, 2022

When eCommerce sellers don’t want anyone, even their customers, to know what’s inside the packages they’re sending, they use what’s called “discreet shipping”. You wish the manufacturer had skipped the neon pink packaging and settled for something subtler. Types of Discreet Packaging. Discreet Shipping Labels.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

RAJA Group , a European leader in the distribution of packaging , office supplies and industrial equipment, brought together its 300 most important suppliers on October 14th in Frankfurt as part of the RAJA Group Suppliers’ Day 2022. The post RAJA shares growth strategy with suppliers appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

Go with a More Sustainable Shipping Strategy Billions of packages are shipped just within the US every year. That includes using full pallet space, selecting the right size of packaging for orders, choosing the best option in terms of floor-loaded shipping vs. palletized shipping , knowing when to leverage freight shipping , etcetera.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 29, 2024

When something goes wrong with a shipment (a package or item within it is damaged, lost, or stolen), that’s like trusting someone to take you to the airport. That means providing multiple means of contacting customer service like online portals, apps, and instructions inserted within packages and sent via email. Of course it is, right?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

To this end, the E-Learning Platform has been inaugurated with two courses specialised in international logistics and freight forwarding and a SOC Masterclass focused on Shipper Owned Containers. The Cooperative members who register for one of the above-mentioned logistics courses by CIFFA will get free access to this Masterclass.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The number of package flights operated by FedEx Express and UPS significantly declined month over month in July, underscoring how far the overall air cargo market has sunk since the spring of 2022 and the effect of efficiency initiatives the companies have undertaken in response to lower express volumes. Downing St.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For your birthday, perhaps, or for Christmas, a complete surprise, or a purchase you had saved up for and keenly anticipated, writes Jo Bradley, Business Development Manager for packaging solutions at Quadient. Now, of course, parcels are a daily occurrence, and our attitude towards packaging is somewhat different – more enlightened.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Of course, the CPG company should also support its D2C initiative with better customer experience, omnichannel shopping alternatives, ease of use for commercial websites, frictionless returns, etc. Quicker response times, pick efficiency as well as packaging requirements are very different from what CPG operations are accustomed to.

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Ship Monk

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Of course, branding also extends itself aesthetically. For the outer packaging, you can use…. As for the inner packaging, how about trying…. Brand-friendly stickers Patterned tape Colorful tissue paper Eco-friendly fillers, such as GreenWrap or recycled packaging paper. But why stop at packaging? What’s your story?

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Logistics Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

same-day delivery of these online orders are not in the majority, with the exception of millenials, of course. That was a key takeaway in a recent white paper issued by the U.S.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 20, 2022

Of course for many retailers the golden quarter isn’t a single event. Not to mention the rising price of packaging materials. Automated ‘right-sized’ packaging for each individual ecommerce order is now readily available to small-to-medium sized enterprises, as well as larger ecommerce businesses.

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Logistics Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

same-day delivery of these online orders are not in the majority, with the exception of millenials, of course. That was a key takeaway in a recent white paper issued by the U.S.

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