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Building Effective Health and Beauty Order Fulfillment: 8 Tactics For Success

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Building Effective Health and Beauty Order Fulfillment: 8 Tactics For Success

The health and beauty industry is a highly competitive market, with a huge range of products, endless variations within SKUs (color, size, style, quantity, quality, etc.), and an extremely diverse audience across every conceivable demographic....

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Air Freight Demand Increasing As Red Sea Attacks Continue

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Air Freight Demand Increasing As Red Sea Attacks Continue

With Houthi rebels continuing their terrorist campaign against ocean cargo ships transiting the Red Sea – most recently targeting two vessels on June...

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What’s Attractive to Prospective Warehouse Workers?

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What’s Attractive to Prospective Warehouse Workers?

With the perennial difficulty of finding and retaining a sufficient warehouse workforce, companies are continually seeking ways to attract new hires....

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Scalability Meets Resilience: Effective Warehouse Workforce Solutions

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Scalability Meets Resilience: Effective Warehouse Workforce Solutions

To say warehouse workforce managers are facing challenging times is an understatement. Between a perennial worker shortage and high churn rate, and...

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Health & Beauty Order Fulfillment: Getting the Details Right Boosts Customer Loyalty

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Health & Beauty Order Fulfillment: Getting the Details Right Boosts Customer Loyalty

Think of the range of consumer health & beauty products — skincare to cosmetics, hair care to oral care, etc. — and within each, an endless variety...

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Supply Chains Resilient, But Return to ‘Normalcy’ Not in the Cards for 2024

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Supply Chains Resilient, But Return to ‘Normalcy’ Not in the Cards for 2024

Market indicators of the health of supply chains here in Q2 of 2024 were a mixed bag recently. A trade group said “normalcy” won’t be achieved in...

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Finding Creative Solutions to Warehouse Labor Management Issues

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Finding Creative Solutions to Warehouse Labor Management Issues

Warehouse labor management is such an evergreen issue, that it should almost have its own scientific plant name in Latin. How do we consistently find...

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Getting Your Arms Around the Cost of Reverse Logistics in E-Commerce

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Getting Your Arms Around the Cost of Reverse Logistics in E-Commerce

Years of liberal returns policies in e-commerce — recently dialed back but not before the behavior was ingrained — have come home to roost in the...

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The Art and Science of Inventory Management

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The Art and Science of Inventory Management

Inventory management. The term has become so familiar, and the practice such a part of the warp and woof of retail, that many don’t give it a second...

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Positive Markers, Investment & Innovation Seen in Logistics Industry

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Positive Markers, Investment & Innovation Seen in Logistics Industry

A positive 3PL report, especially regarding value-added services and distribution, and some much-needed technology investment in drayage, were among...

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