Transportation

Total shipments, total revenue, invoice amount per shipment, and gross profit margin percent increased by almost 8%, 12.6%, 4.4% and 60 Basis Points respectively.

Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) 3PL Market Report is a quarterly report that gathers operating data to present a realistic view of the 3PL industry.

FedEx could be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in drivers’ operating expenses and wages.

Shippers who consider only the cost of dry ice, packaging and transportation perceive a low cost, but when recurring and non-recurring cradle-to-grave costs are considered, their perceptions change.

There is no shortcut when it comes to international trade compliance. All companies that engage in international commerce must follow the rules of the road, so to speak. A recent report found that many companies wrongly ignore export laws because they may or may not realize how the rules apply to them.

Dimensional “dim” pricing could aid carriers’ profitability but might be difficult to implement because of the variety of shipments that by definition move every day in LTL carriage.

Global logistics providers face the challenge of making the right strategic decisions - they need to develop their current customer/region portfolio to secure access to growth markets.

Companies should adapt to new market trends that pose challenging demands.

Both shippers and carriers need to re-engineer the pricing models used for the past 80 years - they need to establish new contracts that are dynamic, continuously reviewed, and encourage innovation.

You could be a great 3PL warehouse operator or traffic manager, yet unless you have specific domain knowledge in a particular functional area or industry vertical, you could miss out on potentially lucrative opportunities.

With these new licenses, UPS now has 33 licenses in China, with 14 of them approved by the Chines government in May, while FedEx received 21 licenses in May and now again has 58 licenses.

Companies that are only using a TMS’ basic functionality miss out on a big chunk of savings and benefits. Industry surveys show that more than 60 percent of TMS users gain at least an 8 percent savings in freight costs, while over 20 percent report cost reductions of 10 percent or more.

CarrierDirect says that freight flows have a bright outlook, following a somewhat difficult beginning to the year.

Now that the pendulum has swung back to carriers, it’s important that they take this opportunity to invest for what the future holds to prepare for inevitable market shifts.

Regardless of what and where you are shipping, the goal is to achieve total control over your global logistics process and the associated costs. Successful logistics organizations are supercharged by the MercuryGate TMS to achieve maximum velocity and flexibility while minimizing costs.

The pressure for distribution centers to increase productivity and reduce labor cost has never been greater. One way distribution centers are helping to meet this goal is by upgrading from mature laser-based scanner technologies to newer digital reader technology that provide increased read rates.

Recently developed vehicle-to-vehicle communication system allows tethering two trucks together improving safety while cutting costs for thousands of trucks on the road.

For an export superpower, China suffers from surprisingly inefficient logistics and warehousing operations.

Outsourcing can bring some of the provider’s logistics experts onsite to your location. Will your onsite employees be operational, strategic, or both?

The immediate upside of using multi-carrier parcel software - is the true independence you get in carrier choice – you can make the right choices from multimodal transportation options or service levels based on your and your customers’ requirements.