An ever-expanding supply chain is, from afar, a good thing. A growing supply chain means a growing business, and that’s typically great news for a CFO. However, a growing supply chain also presents increased risk as well as boundless opportunities for improvement via reduced spend and improved customer experiences. Supply chain audits are one of the ways CFOs can harness the supply chain’s full potential for savings.

Less than truckload (LTL) freight shipping is complex. Adding a pandemic, inflation, capacity embargoes, and rising diesel prices further intensifies the issue. Shippers left bearing the burden of these continuous challenges to satisfy their customers while controlling costs often makes LTL shipping seem like an insurmountable task. Understand your true cost of your LTL shipping with our LTL Toolkit.

This new research brief, written in conjunction with Logistics Management Magazine, highlights some of the key challenges LTL shippers are facing in the current marketplace and explains the role that an experienced, tech-enabled 3PL can play in helping to eliminate some or all of these roadblocks.

Guidelines have gotten stricter over the years. Major big-box retailers like Walmart, Whole Foods, and Target Corporation set high delivery standards that mandate shippers to stay in line with the regulations to continue doing business with them. Read more about actionable steps shippers need to take to work with major big-box retailers who set high delivery standards.