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3PL Basics: The 11 Transportation Services with Jeremy Thone

The Logistics of Logistics

Transportation Service #1 – Small Package. Package delivery or parcel delivery is the shipping of packages (parcels) or high-value mail as single shipments. Package delivery or parcel delivery is the shipping of packages (parcels) or high-value mail as single shipments.

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Companies Cannot Transform Through AI Alone

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS dominated business and trade headlines for a day in late January when the world’s largest package delivery company announced plans to cut 12,000 full- and part-time management jobs as part of a new initiative called “Fit to Serve.” What stood out even more was the “subhead” of UPS’ announcement. He lives in Chicago.

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Overcoming The Current Supply Chain Labor Shortage

ShipLilly

Logistics offers employment for those workers that have been displaced in other industries. May 2020 showed that the logistics industry was also facing significant pressure and that people were going to be laid off in the short run. For example, Amazon announced that it was hiring up to 175,000 new workers during March.

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Amazon’s New Delivery Service Partners Initiative Expands Their Delivery Network Using Franchised Fleets

Bringg

As the volume for deliveries grows, this new franchise model is yet another strategy for Amazon to expand their delivery logistics network. With setup costs starting at $10,000, Amazon said that the owner of the package delivery franchise can expect to earn up to $300,000 in annual profit.

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What is MonkProtect?

Ship Monk

That may seem a bit dramatic, but people who get into the ecommerce industry are dynamic by nature, living every day with visions of innovation, gameplans for growth , and on the hunt for the best scaling strategy. MonkProtect Features ShipMonk is known for its advanced, evolving technology in the ecommerce industry.

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Visibility-Driven Workflow for Transportation Execution

Talking Logistics

Despite industry professionals talking about it for 20+ years, many companies still don’t have real supply chain visibility beyond a rudimentary level. If you can track an Uber driver or an Amazon package delivery on your smartphone, why can’t supply chain visibility be just as easy? So how can we achieve this?

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China’s e-commerce soft spot: Logistics

The Logistics Academy

Thanks to China’s e-commerce boom, the country’s package-delivery business has been growing at 30 percent a year. On the most recent Single’s Day—an online buying fest that takes place every November 11—consumers ordered 680 million packages, across all Chinese websites, that needed delivery.