Creating Good Logistics Provider-Shipper Alignment to Gain Market Advantage
January 10, 2020
Insider Q&A with Chris Hoffmeister, Hub Group’s Executive Vice President of Account Management. He discusses shippers’ challenges in today’s transportation environment, the value of becoming a “shipper of choice,” and what happens when companies are in sync with their logistics providers.
Convey survey takes a long look at shoppers’ holiday shipping expectations
October 31, 2019
In its annual holiday survey, entitled “Last Mile Delivery Wars: How to Keep Retail Promises and Win with Reliability,” which was based on feedback from 2,500 United States-based consumers and focused on trends and themes that Convey said will define the holiday online shopping experience for now and into the future, things like costs, and speed received top billing.
How to Manage Increasing Labeling Demands
August 23, 2019
Download the report to learn best practices for managing those increasing label demands.
Report points to Walmart upping stakes for supplier shipping requirements
March 15, 2019
The report stated that Walmart will have its suppliers that ship full trucks of products to deliver orders within a specified two-day window 87% of the time, which is 2% more than the previous target of 85%. And it added that suppliers filling part of a truck with their goods need to reach a 70% on-time threshold, which is up from 50%, as well as also change how it penalizes suppliers that make partial deliveries to make sure products make it to shelves when they...
USPS reports fiscal first quarter revenue gain but it is outweighed by steep net loss
February 8, 2019
Familiar themes, for both volumes and earnings, remained intact for the United States Postal Service (USPS), based on fiscal first quarter results released today.
How to Become a Shipper of Choice
July 12, 2018
Learn at how companies are effectively increasing the desirability of their freight, streamlining their supply chains, and reducing their transportation costs to become preferred shippers.
USPS shipping services now available at Office Depot
August 17, 2010
As part of a continuing effort to meet customer needs—and generate solutions to drive needed revenue—the United States Postal Service (USPS) is now offering shipping services at 1,083 Office Depot stores throughout the United States.
