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The Economics of Space Freight: Reducing Costs, Addressing Challenges, and Defining Future Logistics

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Despite these reductions, the industry faces complex economic, regulatory, and technological challenges that impact its scalability. Telecommunications, defense, and environmental monitoring are sectors benefiting from these cost efficiencies, though deep-space missions remain largely experimental and expensive.

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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What the New Administration Could Mean for Your Business

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Immigration policy proposals suggest stricter controls, which could reduce the available labor pool in industries such as physical security, commercial cleaning, pest control and landscaping. These sectors rely heavily on foreign-born workers, with an estimated 20% of service occupations filled by immigrants.

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The Real Impact of Pests on Shipping and How to Reduce Pest Issues

MTS Logistics

There must be efficient strategies deployed to reduce the spread of pests and different stakeholders must contribute in some way. The emerald ash borer, a devastating wood-boring insect found in China and eastern Asia, is an example of a pest that is expensive to eradicate. economy more than $1 billion annually.

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The Ultimate Guide to Fleet Management: Strategies to Control and Optimize Your Processes

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Image source: iStocks | The Ultimate Guide to Fleet Management: Strategies to Control and Optimize Your Processes Investing in a fleet management system results in an improvement in internal processes, which directly reflects the quality of the service provided to the end customer.

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Ecommerce Delivery Providers with Nate Skiver

The Logistics of Logistics

Nate is he Founder of LPF Spend Management , which help parcel shippers create parcel shipping programs which reduce expense, while delivering a positive customer experience. Ecommerce carriers [recent market entrants]: Covers a range of operating models, examples include Pandion, X Delivery, AirTerra, Veho, The FrontDoor Collective.

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Transportation Strategies for Continued Success

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A TMS offers optimization capabilities across multiple modes to improve service levels and reduce freight spend. Below are some transportation strategies for success for suppliers of TMS, TES, and MTS. The last mile is the most difficult and most expensive part of the supply chain journey. Look to the Cloud. Invest in Last Mile.