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As companies continue to outsource their warehousing needs, 3PLs are becoming more and more popular. And with this increase in demand comes an increased need for efficiency.

To those unaware of the term "3pl warehousing" let's simplify it f...

Supply chain operations are the backbone of any company. In the modern era, with globalization and technological advances, these operations have become even more important to keep up with the ever-changing demands of consumers. New technologies su...

In today' world, every business can't afford to lose a single customer. If your company is like most others, you work hard continually providing excellent quality products and customer service—hoping your investments will be repaid with more order...

Global supply chains are difficult to manage. Not only does it take a lot of time and effort, but there are also so many issues that could arise daily. And to add to that, it has become highly volatile too, with last-minute cargo changes causing h...

Data analytics is rapidly evolving and if you haven’t realized it yet, then let’s just declare it now, that this has the potential to be a real game-changer in the quest for improving the global logistics processes.

The global markets hav...

Logistic costs are one of the highest operational expenses for companies, especially those dealing with global transportation. Managing them hence becomes a major concern for global companies.

The cost of transporting goods has been stead...

Artificial Intelligence: The next wave of disruption in last-mile logistics?

The logistics industry is in for a major disruption. The old way of doing business is out-competed by the new way, and it’s not just because of artificial intelli...

The journey of any product from the seller to the customer is a story in itself, but the most important step of that journey is that of the product reaching the expectant customers from the shelf of the nearest shipping hub, the one that we know a...

Traditionally, still, more than 45% of the global warehouse management is being done manually or with the help of on-site systems. This approach to warehouse management as it relied on the effectiveness of face-to-face communications, unfortunatel...

As the world tries to grapple with the past 1.5 years of the ordeal that global citizens went through and as they take small but significant steps towards the ‘new normal’, hope remains prevalent among the masses towards a much better tomorrow. Bu...

Most of the supply chain leaders and mainly warehouse managers across the globe today will agree on one common fact surely, that the number of drastic changes that they have seen in their operating models in the pandemic years have even eclipsed t...

Hillsborough, New Jersey—December-22, 2020 — Food Logistics , the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named Highway 905 to its 2020 FL100+ Top Software and Tec...

This year four of the most important Holiday Season sale days like Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday have hit new records by making a whopping $29.64 Billion, in total online sales across the US (as per the r...

With the festive season round the corner and the start to be made this week with our favorite family holiday – Thanksgiving. But medical experts and government officials all around has taken a united front in declaring this year's "Thanksgiving" c...

If the last few months have been any warning, then, one thing we understood for sure, is that, we can never be prepared enough for the unexpected. Supply chain and logistics sectors were already in a lot of dilemma on tackling their own challenges...

The Covid-19 impact on global supply chains is as real, as it gets. In the latest CSCMP’s Annual Conference Report, it was seen that majority of companies (58%) answered that they saw at least a 25% reduction in supply chain operations and 6% stat...

At the beginning of 2020, Food Marketing Institute (FMI) revised their previously estimated online food and beverage sales to rise to the scale of $143 billion by 2025. But the Covid-19 situation has left all the past numbers even further behind a...

What did your warehouse say to you today? Well, I am not literally talking about it, but rather having the next best thing – the ultimate warehouse visibility. Think about a warehouse operational framework, where you have the visibility across all...

In a recent study by Gartner, it was found that, 51% of the supply chain professional across the high-tech, industrial and food & beverage industries feel their focus on “circular economy” and its related strategies will increase multifold over th...

The times they are a changing. Consumers, as we know, have emerged as the game-changers in deciding the way businesses operate today. Gone are the days when consumer loyalty gave the ultimate power to businesses to ensure monopoly over mark...

Imagine a world of hyper-connected, artificially intelligent and IoT based bots or tracking sensors enabled with the power of AI and M2M communications that designs a seamless framework of highly efficient supply chain management. A world where ex...

Labor management, visibility and optimizing the employee efforts, has been a pain-point for all industries alike for over years. Apart from being one of the major drivers of your operational budget (sometimes almost 20% of your total budget), the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a wake-up alarm for many global manufacturers and supply chain leaders and most of them are still in the reactive phase with this crisis. But it will be wrong to completely attribute the challenges that most of the S...

In a research conducted by Gartner in the early 2019, they predicted that by 2023, over 30% of operational warehouse workers will be supplemented, not replaced, by collaborative robots.

But that was a time when warehouse operations across t...

Till the beginning of 2020, organizations were focused on reducing the complexities and improving the efficiencies of the last-mile deliveries. But in few months the scenario changed, organizations were forced to re-think their delivery strategies...

“You had exceptions with 2 of your shipments (CX187J9 Princeton, CX342K3 Savannah) here is the report. All the exceptions has been resolved. Resolution Time: 3 hours. See More.” – Jonas’s mobile lock screen woke up with this notification. Sipping ...