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The Freight Forwarder’s Era: The Top Advantages of Working with a Freight Forwarder

MTS Logistics

Let’s start with some definitions of what a freight forwarder is. Well, a freight forwarder negotiates rates on your behalf, knowing the market. This allows more allocation as a booking agent, having prices that are more accessible, too. This also allows carriers to consider a freight forwarder as one of their top customers.

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Supply Chain Glossary of Terms

Logistics Bureau

Acknowledgement: In purchasing, acknowledgement is the term used to describe a suppliers confirmation that the buyers purchase order has been received, and hence, that the order is accepted. Where this is the case, the COO must accompany the goods or be presented to customs authorities when the shipment arrives at the country of import.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Practice integrity, avoid conflicts of interest and personal enrichment, treat suppliers equally and fairly, and comply with legal and other obligations. Directly or indirectly, you are affected.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

This is a long way around to noting that most economic predictions these days are always accompanied by the caveat “…as long as tariffs don’t cause too much damage,” a common refrain among industry association economists in their presentations at the American Trucking Associations Annual Economic Summit held in September.