Supply Chain: Lowering Your Total Cost of Business
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How to Lower Total Supply Chain Management Cost
People are often delighted to see a favorite childhood treat on the shelf of their local grocery store—and shocked at how expensive it is now. While factors like inflation, taxes,…
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How Long Do Pallets Last?
If you’re building a pallet fleet, it’s crucial to know how long your pallets will last in order to make the best possible choice for your company’s needs. You may…
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How to Streamline Your Pallet Inspection Procedure
ARTICLE UPDATED DECEMBER 20, 2023 Pallets are an essential component of virtually every warehouse delivery, making it a rarity to find a shipment that doesn’t utilize them. Even less common…
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How to Reduce Pallet Costs
Efficiency is the key to protecting profit margins, especially in the high volume and narrow margin world of grocery and consumer packaged goods. Due to the nature of these industries,…
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Cross Docking As a Supply Chain Strategy
ARTICLE UPDATED ON AUGUST 10, 2023 Cross docking is a supply chain tactic that eliminates the need for a warehouse, at least in theory. In this approach, incoming freight from…
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Why Are Freight Rates Dropping in 2019?
The years 2017 and 2018 were incredibly profitable for transportation companies, but the increasing transportation rates that made these years so profitable for carriers also tightened profit margins for manufacturers.…
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Tips on Logistics Management: Keeping Your Supply Chain Running Smoothly
The world dangles in a web of very long threads–these are the various supply chains that keep food in our refrigerators, deliver the refrigerators to the stores in the first…
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3 Warehouse Cost Reduction Ideas That Will Trim Expenses
You’ve probably noticed that supply chains everywhere are undergoing significant changes. Technology is widely available that allows us to automate tasks, coordinate shipments, and reduce labor costs, and many warehouse…
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How Much Does a Plastic Pallet Cost?
It’s not just your eyes playing tricks on you or your imagination running wild: you really seeing more plastic pallets stacked on the floors of shopping warehouses like Costco, a…
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Kaizen Ideas for the Warehouse That Will Improve Productivity
ARTICLE UPDATED ON JANUARY 31, 2024 The journey of Kaizen business strategies has been remarkable since Toyota pioneered them in Japan’s post-war reconstruction in the late 1940s. It was Toyota’s integration of…