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Keep up to date on what’s going on in the supply chain & logistics industry.
Dirty Little Secrets of Holiday Returns 1: E-Commerce & CX
After all the holidays have come and gone, the holiday gifts have been unwrapped and gift cards spent, there is a huge cloud gathering. From Bed Bath and Beyond to Amazon, Macy’s, New Egg, Best Buy and Target, the holiday returns start rolling in with a vengeance....
Reduce Warehouse Labor Costs to Increase Profitability
Typically, the largest single cost component of warehouse total operating cost is labor. Although hourly labor rates have increased over the past few years, overall work productivity has tended to remain somewhat stagnant. With the shortage of supply chain workers...
Industry 4.0 & the Digital Supply Chain
What is Industry 4.0? Over the course of human history, mankind has experienced an evolution in industry. Each major disruption caused torrents of changes to existing operations and proved to be transformational.The first industrial revolution began in the 1780s with...
Making Waves (Part 4): E-commerce Last Mile Delivery Innovators
Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know by now that the supply chain logistics industry is changing. The huge increase in e-commerce sales, omnichannel retail and need for Direct-to Consumer last mile delivery is increasing the speed and need for...
What is Driving the Trend to Purchase New Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)?
For years, warehouse and 3PL operators processed goods by the pallet. With today’s huge push towards e-commerce transactions, third party logistics providers, warehouse and distribution center operators need to be able to pick, process and ship goods individually...
2018 3PL Study Recap: 3PL-Shipper Collaboration & 3PL IT
IntroductionAs the speed of supply chain and logistics operations advances to service increasing consumer demand, there is a greater need for real time information visibility and communication between shippers and 3PL providers. With this said, more shippers and 3PLs...
Amazon & Whole Foods Last Mile
To coin a 1978 song by country singer Loretta Lynn, “we’ve come a long way, baby”. The grocery store and corner market of yesteryear is about to change. Are we ready? Today we live in a much more complicated ecommerce and omnichannel world, where we expect fast, low...
Making Waves (Part 3): Last Mile Delivery & Transportation Innovators
In this edition of Making Waves, we examine two companies that aid brick and mortar and omnichannel retailers and e-commerce businesses provide personalized last mile delivery and quality customer experiences. We also take a look at a company that is helping smaller...
Disaster Relief and Supply Chain Disruption
Disaster Relief and Recovery As the world has seen with Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Hurricane Irma in Florida, Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas, Hurricane Maria throughout Puerto Rico and the Caribbean and the devastating recent earthquake in Mexico City,...
Supply Chain Technology & the Omnichannel Customer Experience
Consumers and the Omnichannel Customer Experience You do not need to be an Amazon Prime member to know that most consumers today order online, often from several different channels. It seems like consumers are using Google and mobile devices to search for everything...