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MTS Logistics: An Example of Great Customer Service in Shipping

MTS Logistics

Despite today’s chaos in shipping and logistics, the customer remains paramount. Supply chain and logistics operations have become central to differentiated customer experience strategies. What sets shipping and logistics companies apart for great customer service?

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Biggest Electric Truck Purchase

Logistics Business Magazine

Global logistics company DSV has signed an agreement with Volvo Trucks to purchase 300 electric trucks, marking one of Volvo’s largest electric vehicle orders. Extending our partnership with Volvo supports our mission to lead the green transition in logistics and bring scalable solutions to our customers.”

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Procurement vs. Purchasing: What’s the Difference?

Logistics Bureau

The best way to understand the difference between procurement and purchasing in a business is to consider the process involved in buying a car, says Logistics Bureau’s procurement specialist, Trent Morris. Procurement First, Purchasing Follows. It could be the after-purchase service or the warranties that you are after.

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The Strategic Importance of Global Procurement

Logistics Bureau

The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone. Clearly, procurement decisions are more and more based on total supply chain cost, carbon footprint impact , other ethical, social and economic factors, rather than just purchase prices. Instead, it should be an information exchange virtual platform.

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Buy vs. Build: Should You Purchase Software or Create Your Own?

Parade

That’s not to say that it doesn’t take time to get to the point where you can use a purchased software in operations; it takes time to implement, integrate, test, and train staff to work with new programs. With software, that overrun can be costly, , according to McKinsey. In-house builds have no such luxury.

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Reverse Logistics Warehouses. But, there are actually many different types of warehouse storage in logistics and supply chains. This means they act as third-party logistics (3PLs) and may even offer value-added fulfillment services to help subsidize the costs of running the warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The information the companies gather could, for example, allow managers to receive information about unexpected frost harming cherry production or information about harvesting delays, which could result in inventory changes. This certainly sounds like a lofty goal. billion in 2015.