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Recent, Happening Now
June 19, 2025
New eBook: Rely on an Integrated 3PL to Orchestrate Your Cold Chain
In today’s fast-paced supply chain environment, maintaining product integrity from origin to delivery has never been more critical—especially when it involves temperature-sensitive goods like food...
Recent, Happening Now
June 9, 2025
Happening Now: Transportation Pricing Outpacing Capacity
According to FreightWaves, transportation pricing grew faster than capacity again in May. Despite rising capacity, prices surged even more—signaling tightness in the transportation market and...
Recent, Happening Now
May 19, 2025
Per-Diem and Detention Charges in Shipping: What They Are and How to Prevent Them
Detention and demurrage charges—already a pain point for importers—are once again under scrutiny. In 2025, a mix of regulatory ambiguity, evolving steamship line practices, and a volatile...
Third Party Logistics
July 17, 2017
Why Grading a Potential 3PL Partner is Like Grading a Restaurant
Do you ever feel like breaking out of the everyday routine and trying a new dinner spot? Well before hopping in the car and driving aimlessly, try turning to the internet to find suggestions and...
Third Party Logistics
July 11, 2017
Reduce Warehouse Labor Costs By Paying Workers More!
How can you reduce warehouse labor costs by paying more to warehouse workers?Simple: Don’t pay everyone more, just the peak performers.
Team Building
November 10, 2016
Driving Dissent
We all face the drive to “get it done” and usually it means “get it done right now!” But sometimes in the rush to mark the next item off our “to do” lists, we stop listening. We stop engaging our...
Transportation Strategies
November 3, 2016
The Advantages of a 3PL with blended Asset/Non-Asset Based Transportation Services
There are many transportation services to choose from when deciding which one is the right fit for your business. A company with robust assets – a fleet of actual trucks providing service – paired...
Logistics Management
October 19, 2016
Maximizing the Benefits of Shared Commercial Warehousing
“Consume less, share better.”-Herve Kempf Shared warehousing, also known as public warehousing, can’t sound anything other than cost effective, right?Your goods are received, stored and...
Logistics Management
October 2, 2016
Utilizing Data to Lower Warehouse Rates
We all know how the story goes when it comes to finding the lowest price, “you get what you pay for” they say. Wouldn’t it be nice for once to pay less for great quality! When it comes to...
Peak Season Shipping
September 16, 2016
4 Mistakes to Avoid This Holiday Season
For many retailers, the holiday season is the biggest and busiest season of the year. Some companies report that up to 40% of their total revenue comes from the holidays alone. Mistakes during this...
Labor issues
July 12, 2016
Leading High Performance Teams
Management practices have evolved over the last 40 years or so. There has been a slow but unmistakable move towards a more inclusive and more open leadership style. That style supports a level of...
Public Warehousing
May 31, 2016
Trust: Key for a Successful Third Party Logistics Partnership
With any good relationship’s foundation you will find trust. We constantly hear it. Just trust me. Without any backing or reasoning, just TRUST ME. Now if referencing dinner, okay… I trust you, but...
Southern California Ports
May 20, 2016
Gear Up for SOLAS Compliance
We have all heard about SOLAS by now, but the time has come to ramp up efforts for compliance. Do you have all the facts? We have gathered information from credible sites to create FAQs that can...
Capital Management