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Shipping Challenges For The 2021 Produce Season
Shipping Challenges For The 2021 Produce SeasonShow SubmenuResources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Podcast Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - February 9, 2021 Volume increases in shipping can drive up rates and create challenging conditions in freight capacity. Under normal conditions, the strain on CPG shippers occurs tidally. Produce season causes disruptions, but occurs [...]
You Want To Be A Supplier For Whole Foods, Right?
You Want To Be A Supplier For Whole Foods, Right?Show SubmenuResources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Podcast Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - August 25, 2020 While brick and mortar stores haven’t died out completely, the pandemic hasn’t done them any favors. Not being able to leave the house due to COVID-19, many consumers [...]
How the Three M’s Can Help You Cut Down on Supply Chain Cost
As the global supply chain settles into the COVID19 technology driven and customer-centric decade, there’s no time to pause and reflect on what has happened. Now, more than ever is a time for action. You need to pick up the pace and ensure that your processes are leaner, faster, and you are equipped to meet [...]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing an Internal Audit of Your Supply Chain
A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing an Internal Audit of Your Supply ChainShow SubmenuResources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Podcast Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - June 10, 2020 While all facets of the modern business are important, arguably the most important to any retail, manufacturing, or goods based service is their supply chain. The [...]
Walmart+ vs. Amazon Prime: How Different Are They?
Amazon delivered a swift blow to retailers with the introduction of Amazon Prime. Walmart is fighting back. Amazon spent years building what was to be its competitive advantage in e-commerce, its formidable distribution network. By building distribution centers across the country, investing in algorithms to optimize pick-time, and hiring operational wizards from Walmart and other […]
The Fifty Shapes of Amazon Logistics
Digital and physical are reaching a point of total convergence, something that would have been unheard of 20 years ago. Companies like WholeFoods and Amazon are changing up their logistics goals in a big way, something that is likely to ripple through other similar industries. Amazon Tips its Hand to Logistics It’s unarguable at this point that […]
How Can SMBs Contend With Big Box Retailers?
Small and mid-size businesses are finding themselves in a difficult position in today’s market, courtesy of the Amazon effect. Consumers now expect free shipping and in most cases they expect it to be either two days, one-day, or even same-day delivery. That’s all well and good when you have a massive financial engine to throw [...]
Evolving Consumer Demands Prompt Continued Changes in Logistics
Twenty years ago, no one would have imagined for a second that they could order a product online in the morning and have it on their porch before they got home from work. Today, it’s all but expected that delivery occur within very small timeframes, even the same day. The battle amongst large players in […]
What Matters Most When Choosing A 3PL: Cost Or Customer Service?
While there are many factors to consider when choosing a 3PL service provider, cost and customer service are two of the most critical factors. Finding the right balance is the ultimate chicken and egg situation for all logistics managers. If they can crack this, they can get a step closer to creating a better and more [...]
Amazon’s Next Frontier: The Food and Grocery Business
Amazon has already proved its mettle in the e-commerce space and in the distribution sector. Earlier in the year the company also staked its claim in the digital freight brokerage industry. Now, it has set its sight on the grocery business. Amazon’s Grocery Connect Unlike its other ventures, the retail giant’s foray into the food and grocery […]
5 Easy Ways to Make Your Supply Chain and Business Environment-Friendly
Climate change and a deteriorating environment is the most discussed subject around the world. In fact, it would not be remiss to say that issues related to environmental degradation and climate change have already begun to emerge in various parts of the world. In some places it is in the form of floods, storms, hurricanes, [...]
Shippers Growing Success With 3PLs
The 24th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study for 2020 has been released and it shows a growing success between shippers and their 3PL partners. “The majority of shippers, 93%, report that the relationships they have with their 3PLs generally have been successful. A higher number of 3PLs, 99%, agree that relationships have generally been successful,” the […]
Can Advanced Analytics Put a Pin in OTIF?
According to the 2020 Third-Party Logistics Study, data analytics is not only becoming more viable in the logistics industry, but it’s also becoming a necessity and make a difference. With the growing storm that is e-commerce, brick and mortar retailers have had to step twice as fast in order to stay in the game. Especially, […]
The Definition of Transparency
As companies mature and the market changes, our understanding of crucial operating components of any industry has also grown. Supply chain transparency, in particular, has come a long way over the past twenty years. Transparency within the supply chain has gone from an unrecognized concept to a focus item for the C-Suite across a vast […]
The Secret of Successful Supply Chains: A Culture of Continuous Improvement
Why are some supply chains operating at an optimum level, while others are struggling to perform day to day operations? How are some supply chains able to respond quickly to market demands, while others miss opportunities? Why are some supply chain managers able to reduce costs without compromising product and service quality, while others are […]