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Truckload Market Trends to Watch in 2022

GlobalTranz

Regulatory efforts, such as lowering the minimum age for commercial drivers, attracting female drivers and tapping military drivers, could alleviate some of the pressure in the coming months. With warehouses running at capacity, many companies rely on containers for storage, reducing the number of units available for new loads.

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What Is Cross-Docking and Why Does It Matter?

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

This might mean stopping a truck at a distribution center’s inbound dock to move goods from it directly to an outbound truck in an outbound dock without storing the inventory inside the cross-docking warehouse. So it’s no surprise that the process was first created for military shipments in the 1950s.

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Understanding How Parcel Cost Control Reduces Total Transportation Costs

GlobalTranz

A 3PL Can Leverage Volume Discounts and Negotiate Lower Carrier Rates Shippers are not stuck with paying the publicized rates for parcel freight; they can negotiate terms with carriers to land “best-in-class parcel contracts, reports Rob Martinez of MultiChannel Merchant.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Interesting Facts & Financial Breakdown of the Global Logistics Market

GlobalTranz

The United States military ensured that the services and supplies were provided at the right time and at the right place. This also gave birth to several military logistics techniques which are still in use in a more advanced form. The best available options were developed to do the task. Infographic: The Global Logistics Market.

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2018 D3: Future-Proof Your Warehouse Strategy

FLEXE

FLEXE Co-founder and CEO, Karl Siebrecht, gave a presentation on how you can “Future-Proof Your Warehousing.” So, back to future-proofing your warehousing. If you’re in the military, there’s a lot of scenarios you can imagine happening, and you can’t plan for every single one of them. That’s awesome.

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Solving the Retail Supply Chain Challenge: Future-Proof Your Warehouse Strategy

FLEXE

FLEXE Co-founder and CEO, Karl Siebrecht, gave a presentation on how you can “Future-Proof Your Warehousing.” So, back to future-proofing your warehousing. If you’re in the military, there’s a lot of scenarios you can imagine happening, and you can’t plan for every single one of them. That’s awesome.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

What is a warehouse? And what is a warehouse management system? On the 3PL front, C.H. military should start training our soldiers and military police to run the West Coast ports in the ever-more-likely event ILWU workers will go on strike this summer when the current agreement expires June 30, 2014.