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Shipping Heavy Freight:  Four Functions You Should Ask a Fulfillment Center To Help With

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Once upon a time, most people would have thought twice before ordering furniture, a piece of exercise equipment, or a kitchen appliance online. Today, such heavy freight orders are commonplace.

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National Private Truck Council (NPTC) Survey Highlights Value, Performance of Private Fleets

Penske Move Ahead

The National Private Truck Council 2021 Benchmarking Survey Report provides fleets with new industry standards to evaluate performance and identify opportunities for improvement. The 2021 NPTC Benchmarking Survey Report, which is sponsored by Penske, captures critical metrics from the 2020 calendar year, which was a time like no other.

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4 tips to reduce cargo damage and save money on shipping costs

Shipping and Freight Resource

As per a Statista survey, eighty per cent of consumers say they’d return a product they received that was damaged in shipping. But you can exercise more control over shipping and cargo damage than you might be aware as long as you have the right tools at your disposal.

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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

These quiz responses are fairly consistent with a 2017 survey by Lora Cecere’s Supply Chain Insights, which revealed that 65% of companies use spreadsheets for network design. Care should be exercised though , because the same reasons that have made the technology more accessible should’ve made it more affordable.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

The techniques require different degrees of sophistication, but even the relatively simple exercise of putting data from different sources in the same space and producing a visual representation can suggest strategies for transformation. to anticipate conditions that signal an emerging demand spike.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Of more than 700 women truckers surveyed by the nonprofit American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) in 2023, roughly one in six said they experience harassment or discrimination based on their gender on a daily basis, while more than two-thirds said they’ve been discriminated against or harassed at least once.

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Building Brand Loyalty with Last-Mile Logistics

Morai Logistics

In fact, a staggering 88% of consumers who participated in the 2018 Global Consumer Insights Survey , confirmed they would pay more for ‘same-day or faster delivery’. As mentioned above, today, almost 90% of surveyed customers would opt to pay extra for same-day shipping. In 2016, McKinsey found that nearly.