Peak Season

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based 3PL Echo Global Logistics. Waggoner offered up insights on a whole host of topics, including: inflation; rates and capacity; and Peak Season prospects, among others.

DHL Supply Chain, works closely with customers to prepare for peak periods, putting planning, analytics and operations excellence in place to enable them to succeed.

As the calendar moves closer to the holiday season, so, too, do respective announcements by companies, ringing the bell for seasonal labor help.

Peak season is something that most retailers and third-party logistics providers have learned to handle in their fulfillment centers after years of experience, often by hiring temporary warehouse workers to help out with the higher volumes.

DHL Supply Chain can help make your e-commerce vision a reality.

Read the 2022 3PL Peak Season Playbook to learn tips on how to improve operations for peak season fulfillment

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the supply chain industry has been completely thrown off, with ever-changing rules and regulations. As a result, it's getting harder and harder to plan accordingly.

At DHL Supply Chain, our comprehensive approach to innovation enables us to quickly and effectively transform our customers’ operations with automation, including during peak season.

In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Ted Prince, co-founder and chief strategy officer for Tiger Cool Express.

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Anyone who thinks he or she has an accurate feel for what the peak shipping season will look like between now until around Halloween clearly has not been paying attention to the wacky ups-and-downs of the past two years. First came the economic shutdown induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Then came an overheated economic rebound that taxed the limits of production of items ranging from toilet paper to computer semiconductor chips. Now the nation faces at least a one-in-three chance...

Larry Gross, president of Gross Transportation Consulting, provided LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman with an overview of key global logistics trends and themes, including Peak Season and the freight economy, among others.

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In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Brian Bourke, Chief Growth Officer, SEKO Logistics.

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