Employing a regional warehouse network is a decentralized supply chain strategy designed to reduce overall logistics expenses by pushing inventory closer to consumption. By positioning facilities closer to dense populations and major markets, shippers can reduce final delivery time while decreasing transportation miles significantly, utilizing truckload or rail to the regional DC and then LTL … Read More
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Supply Chain Alignment: The Key to Optimal Performance
Much has been said about supply chain management. But what about supply chain alignment? Have you aligned procurement, production, transportation, and distribution to work in a coordinated and integrated manner? This blog will address three key points related to supply chain alignment, including whether your assets are aligned for optimal performance, logistics services, and goals. … Read More
Read moreThree Reasons Why MTS is a Better Strategy
MTS Can Make Transportation an Asset Outsourcing management of a company’s transportation operations is a big step, but it’s also one that can deliver big benefits, transforming transportation into an asset. This month’s blog discusses the three top benefits of sourcing the transportation function to a Managed Transportation Services 3PL, which is responsible for planning, … Read More
Read moreOutsourcing Transportation Management: What’s In It for You?
Transportation is often one of the largest expenditures on the balance sheet. Consequently, proper management of this expense is a top priority for most organizations and can lead to pointed questions about outsourcing. “Will we be better off in terms of service and cost by outsourcing management to the experts?” This is not to insinuate … Read More
Read moreScalable 3PLs: Ensuring a Sustainable Partnership
Supply chain transparency has historically referred to the ability to track production flow, inventory, and shipments. While that still holds true, transparency is critical to ensuring a sustainable partnership between the shipper and 3PL. Clear communication, the establishment of specific performance metrics, and a thorough understanding of how services can be scaled or modified to … Read More
Read moreThe Trend is Your Friend: Collaboration is the Key to Success in 2023
If there is one common law in logistics, it’s that we’re all pretty much connected. Yes, technology is dramatically changing the logistics landscape and can be a service differentiator, but at the end of the day, relationships make for a great supply chain. And we’re not talking about “let’s play golf after I buy you … Read More
Read more3PL 101 – How 3PL Services Add Value to Your Supply Chain
Providing your customers with a great delivery experience is just as important as being able to deliver a high-quality product. A positive customer experience can determine whether buyers will trust your brand. Managing your supply chain to ensure a great delivery is often an overwhelming task. Whether through business growth, SKU complexity, capacity issues, or … Read More
Read moreTurn Your Freight Department into a Profit Center
Being agile and cost-conscious is more crucial than ever, with the current economic landscape changing how we do business. The pandemic, global supply chain disruptions, driver shortages, and record inflation have made it difficult to keep transportation costs down while still providing excellent service. In addition, the Russia-Ukraine war further complicated the picture, pushing up … Read More
Read more3 Reasons Why You Need a Supply Chain Control Tower
Visibility, Collaboration, Actionable Intelligence: The Big Three in Supply Chain Optimization If you’re like most transportation or supply chain managers, you want to know what’s where in your supply chain. You need the scale of visibility that will give you the agility and speed to overcome supply chain disruptions. By investing in supply chain control towers, … Read More
Read moreEmerging Trends to Improve Your Supply Chain
While robotic, automated warehousing and electric, driverless trucks might be grabbing the headlines, most logistics managers and supply chain directors need to find and leverage more down to earth solutions to reduce costs and improve service. Let’s consider three. Can You Cross-Dock Instead of Storing? As a solution-focused logistics partner, Wavepoint 3PL has 14 food … Read More
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