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…situation, noting that shippers should demand end-to-end visibility in management of shipments through final delivery to the end customer irrespective of their location. In addition, shippers now expect visibility with suppliers and other stakeholders regardless of location. “Forwarders tend to be well versed in global trade and can orchestrate trade between ports and airports,” says Roberson. “In addition, they’re knowledgeable with a country’s customs and duties requirements and will be able to advise shippers of these costs and estimated time for clearance. However, for the final-mile delivery, forwarders will now need to add that same level of transparency and partner…
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…to a third-party dedicated trucking option, implementing zone-skipping for parcel shipments, implementing vendor shipment to the customer (drop ship), and changing customer order sizes and order-to-delivery cycles (with the help of sales) to increase shipment sizes and better fill out trailers. Execution changes, as the name suggests, can be implemented in as short as a few months, or even weeks, with little-to-no expenses. These are also changes to the existing supply chain that can have a meaningful impact on cost and/or service. Execution changes can include rebidding truckload or LTL transportation, putting in place processes to reign in “rogue” transportation…
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…and in-store return options. Due to efforts to consolidate parcel shipments and as ecommerce and in-store returns continue to grow, so too will the role of LTL and truckload carriers in moving the returned goods. How can truckload and LTL carriers better use technology to help them optimize these e-commerce shipments? When we discuss reverse logistics, the goal is always to maximize recovery value. It is impossible to receive the full market value that a new good can garner when dealing with returns. Thus, there is ultimately a greater cost to offset with return shipments than with forwarding shipments. Any…
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…of how their 3PLs are performing. “Thanks to warehouse management systems, our customers are armed with metrics and KPIs,” says Galiher. “Our business is no longer predicated on the belief that we’re performing. Our customers measure and benchmark us. We have to prove we’re doing a good job.” Generation III With competitive pressures mounting, PFS improved on the proven Generation II design with a new automated warehouse it calls Generation III. “When it comes to automation, we don’t think we have a choice,” says Galiher. “If all you’re doing is moving a pallet from point A to point B, that’s…
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…the logistics sector to alleviate traffic congestion caused by parcel deliveries, potentially leading to consolidation centers on the periphery of urban cores. “Re-logistification” of retail and other property types is taking place in cities, effectively blending retail and logistics. As inventories are fully integrated into urban retail shops, they will be used as small warehousing facilities for e-fulfillment and processing returns. Fleets of mobile warehouses parked at strategic locations throughout cities may be created to provide flexible distribution. Berretta also points out that with Chinese wages increasing, manufacturers in both the U.S. and Europe are near-shoring production to lower-wage countries,…
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…World Related White Papers United States Cross Border Ecommerce Parcel Shipping Advisory Retailers, direct-to-consumer brands, marketplaces, and marketplace sellers riding the lockdown boom in Cross Border eCommerce sales are going to get a massive ‘wake-up call’ in the mail from July 1 as Global postal rates into the United States start to soar by as much as 150% or more. Download Now! Delivering Pandemic Resilience This white paper details how to secure stable supply chains for vaccines and medical goods during the COVID-19 crisis and future health emergencies. Download Now! 5 Ways COVID-19 Has Changed Last-Mile Deliveries Forever For those…
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…Development with SMC3’s Joe Tillman In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Joe Tillman, Manager of Education Programs for SMC3. Listen Now! SMC3 Less-than-Truckload (LTL) Online Education LTL is an incredibly complex mode of transportation, and for supply chain novices, experience in the field isn’t easily gained. When longtime employees with decades of experience in the industry leave, a hole in the collective knowledge of their organizations opens up. The same holds true for upwardly mobile logistics leaders that change jobs. To fill this void, SMC³ has partnered with Logistics Training Center to provide the industry’s…
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…January 2015, but ended operations in August 2016. Uber’s parcel delivery service, UberRUSH, is encountering rigorous competition from Postmates. Didi Chuxing, which also has deep pockets from the likes of Tencent, Alibaba and Apple, showed that even Uber’s core business isn’t infallible, beating out Uber for the China taxi market. Finally, Uber Freight is now coming up against multiple Uber-for-Trucking companies (albeit with a huge branding advantage). Logistics Technology Going Forward No matter what happens, more technology in the space means more efficiency. Domestic US trucking has traditionally been an early technology adopter. With Freightos’ push to bring international logistics…
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…the logistics industry, which poses a threat to United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. Amazon has been reducing its reliance on its longtime partners, including the U.S. Postal Service, in favor of delivering products on its own. More than half of the products sold on Amazon come from independent merchants who pay Amazon a commission on each sale. Merchants can handle packing and shipping items on their own, but many say they use Amazon’s service and pay Amazon additional fees because that gives their products better placement on the site and boosts their sales, according to the Democrats’ report.…
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…May Seem Similar but Play Specific Roles in Logistics Management Success FAP. 3PL. MDM, TMS, and now TSM. The transportation logistics industry loves a good acronym, right? But while terms may look and sound similar on the surface, the sophisticated technologies they summarize are actually very different and should never be viewed as interchangeable. In the case of TMS (Transportation Management Systems) and TSM (Transportation Spend Management), both are essential components of the “tech stack” – along with the other processes, technologies, and capabilities that all combine together to create a Control Tower approach resulting in a mature, highly-efficient supply…
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…rank as some of the leading suppliers of warehouse management system (WMS) software and other SCE solutions such as transportation management systems (TMS). In fact, analyst firm Gartner figures that in terms of the number of new WMS deals, the leading WMS vendors have roots in ERP, even while the major “best-of-breed” SCE/WMS providers continue to do well when it comes to overall sales. Thus, in many cases, a company’s ERP vendor may also be its WMS vendor. But ERP vendors haven’t stopped there. They’ve branched into functionality such as e-commerce, global commerce hub software and prebuilt Internet of Things…
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…deploying supply chain execution (SCE) software such as warehouse management system (WMS) solutions, the numbers tell a pretty modest story. Related: Supply Chain Execution Software Convergence While some other enterprise software categories such as customer relationship management (CRM) have seen cloud solutions catch on in a significant way, the SCE segment lags behind. For instance, cloud-based WMS sales in 2013 only accounted for about 8 percent of the WMS market, according to Chad Eschinger, an analyst with Gartner Research. By comparison, Gartner estimates that 45 percent of the CRM market was cloud-based in 2013, while the overall supply chain management…
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…pressures in the form of tougher dimensional pricing from parcel carriers are forcing closer scrutiny of last-mile processes. Adding to the attention is the activity of Amazon, which has been testing its own last-mile, same-day delivery service in San Francisco and using bike messengers in Manhattan. Meanwhile, new services such as “Doorman” in San Francisco seek to appeal to consumers who want their e-commerce purchases collected for them at a secure location and delivered to them in one batch. Then, there is an evolution in courier services for urban areas, in which independent drivers may begin to compete with more…
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…a frequent contributor to our sister publication – Logistics Management – contends that this dichotomy reflects much uncertainty about both global oil demand – which is a function of economic activity – and supply, which is increasingly subject to non-market forces. “This wide range of price forecasts reflects unprecedented circumstances brought about not only by COVID-19 virus and its many and growing number of variants, but also the various governmental, cultural, and personal responses,” he says. “These responses have had profound impacts on the U.S. and global economy. Andreoli says that inflation has certainly extended to oil and fuel prices,…
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…dried up, and others, including LTL, truckload, and small parcel carriers, struggled to manage the huge shipment volumes flowing through their networks. All in all, the industry landscape has been characterized by these extremes, which we are only now starting to see normalize as we kick-off 2021. Logistics providers, in addition to many shippers, had the impact of a mass movement to working remotely. This exposed many processes and efficiency gaps in the industry in addition to throwing long-held business models and approaches into question. This mass exodus from the office and the need to “work together apart” was something…