Third Party Logistics

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.

The Great Decoupling refers to an exodus of production from China as businesses seek to improve supply chain resilience, these circumstances have been beneficial for a variety of other countries in Southeast Asia, including India, Vietnam, and Malaysia, among others.

To combat recruitment and retention problems in fulfillment, many shippers have turned to their third-party logistics partners.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Tom Nightingale, CEO, AFS Logistics LLC, a 3PL and freight audit and payment company.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Tom Nightingale, CEO, AFS Logistics LLC, a 3PL and freight audit and payment company.

Incorporating a crowdsourced delivery option into your company’s broader logistics and fulfillment plan may help to overcome some of the same-day delivery challenges and provide many benefits to your fulfillment models.

Working with a logistics provider to enhance your inventory management capabilities offers numerous benefits, including better cash flow, freeing up internal resources, accessing technology without a high upfront cost, and much more.

Third Party Logistics (3PLs) march onward.

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

Despite the innovation happening over the past two years, many industry stakeholders have overlooked blighted industrial properties as a viable pipeline for new industrial inventory.

With industrial real estate demand expected to far outweigh supply for a few more years at a minimum, finding new warehouse space can feel pretty intimidating.

Mastering returns may be easier said than done, with consumers expected to return more than $761 billion in goods bought online in 2022.

What will e-commerce warehouses look like in 10 years? Though predicting the future certainly has a margin of error, we can make educated forecasts about the future of warehousing.

The solution to resiliency can be summed up in one word: more, more visibility, more transparency among partners, more resources, more staff, more technology, and the list goes on and on.

Just like last year, 3PLs continue to face a host of critical and pressing issues that challenge their skills at managing a client’s supply chain. And while company financials for 2021 were staggering, the state of the market in 2022 depends on the pace of global recovery— which currently seems to be slowing.