LEGACY Supply Chain Services

To excel in the swiftly-moving sphere of eCommerce fulfillment, it is essential to establish a robust infrastructure that encompasses people, processes, and systems. This infrastructure should be flexible enough to cater to the varying demands of your business and your customers. However, building a dependable infrastructure can prove to be a challenging task. This is the reason why several merchants opt for the assistance of third-party logistics (3PL) providers.

The Rapid Performance Evaluation identifies opportunities and potential improvements in every aspect of warehouse logistics operations; performance, productivity, service, quality, and systems.

In this guide, we picked the brains of our supply chain engineers to find ways to improve warehouse and distribution center efficiency to help you get started.

We’ve taken the guesswork out of warehouse contingency planning with this downloadable editable template; from performing a risk assessment to testing out mock emergency scenarios, we’ve detailed every step of the process and made it easy for you to document policies and procedures, so you’ll know exactly what to do should disaster strike.

The quarter's eCommerce performance was more muted as Amazon Prime Day dollars shifted to Q3 this year, and the increase in digital sales outpaced that of stores for the first time since early 2021, and more than 20% of consumer spending from April-June occurred online.

The key to meeting and exceeding inventory efficiency across multiple channels is to improve your company’s omni-channel fulfillment performance, starting with inventory visibility.

Based on data collected from nearly 100 companies actively engaged in retail, manufacturing and logistics services, this research paper has provided several valuable insights ranging from current challenges & best practices, characteristics of companies considered high performers, and opportunities for improvement from companies lower on the omni-channel performance curve.

The deployment of advanced automation technology from 6 River Systems, a leader in the fulfillment technology industry, consists of collaborative robots, or cobots, that help optimize fulfillment operations, support labor productivity and increase order throughput.

In this white paper from 6 River Systems, we look at why warehouse automation is no longer viewed as a potential addition to warehouses, instead, it has become crucial to implement quickly to reduce risk and add flexibility to ever-changing business needs.

The cost of a rail strike is seen at $2 billion a day; ‘there aren’t enough trucks to handle that volume’ - for several days, the prospects for preventing a railroad strike or lockout rested with a handful of leaders from labor, industry and government, whose marathon talks led to a tentative agreement Thursday.

Shippers are starting to see the incredible advantage that can be gained through the strategic management of ecommerce, especially as logistics professionals move out of their silos and into the c-suite - three industry experts further contend that walls will continue to be torn down before this disruption reaches an advanced and fully evolved stage.

Whether you’ve been closely following the news or choose to take a more hands-off approach to media consumption, you’ve likely heard the stories coming out of Ukraine, with that in mind, we start today’s Shipment off on a solemn note.

Truck drivers have been overlooked and overworked, not to mention in high demand, throughout this pandemic when in fact, they are among the unsung heroes of this ongoing economic crisis.

We now know that Russia has invaded Ukraine, and even with the pandemic doing a number and adding stress on global supply chains, the escalating, violent conflict in Ukraine is adding to that stress.

Trucking is more than just the notion of drive and delivering on time every time; today employees are seeking the complete package including the company, benefits, and culture.