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Peak Season Prep: 2024 Trends & Strategies

Ship Monk

Today we’re going to look at some of the consumer trends that might affect your preparations for peak season 2024, and strategies to maximize them. Build in redundancies, such as multiple quality checks, multi-node fulfillment, and multiple shipping partners to reduce errors and risk.

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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. Ron Crabtree.

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Strategies for E-Commerce Success: Optimizing Parcel Spend

Stord

Let’s explore common ways brands can better manage parcel and some less known ways brands can really maximize the cost savings…spoiler alert one natural deodorant company saved over $900,000 in annual parcel expenses utilizing these strategies. Well they achieved it by deploying these exact strategies.

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Strategies, Tips, and Pitfalls of Modern Transportation Procurement

Logistics Viewpoints

The effort to move closer to the customer – by virtually all businesses – means supply chain networks of old must be replaced with more links, more nodes, and smaller, more frequent shipments. The post Strategies, Tips, and Pitfalls of Modern Transportation Procurement appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Stord Expands Operations with Acquisition of Pitney Bowes’ State-of-the-Art Fulfillment Center in Kentucky

Stord

This center provides additional excellent middle-of-country, single node coverage and complements Stord’s Atlanta Headquarters. “In This new facility is a powerhouse for existing customers and allows brands to rapidly scale its business and meet consumer demand,” said Kyle VanGoethem, VP of Strategy and Innovation at Stord.

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KRONOS Worldwide Improves Service and Reduces Costs with Managed Trans

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomy led to a complex supply chain with shipments that traveled too many miles and required too many touches across the nodes. Simplification and standardization were key to the strategy. Their IT infrastructure was also highly heterogeneous and provided no standard business processes or real-time reporting.

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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

So, knowing more about order fulfillment, its importance, process, and strategies is critical. Read Also: 5 Ways to Ace Last-mile Reverse Logistics What are the Order fulfillment strategies, and which is right for your business? So there is no fixed rule for selecting the order fulfillment strategy. Let’s fill in!