The case for third-party manifesting software
Manifesting software is becoming more sophisticated with each passing year. The software pinpoints the most cost-effective carrier for each package, based
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Freight Consolidation and Zone Skipping – Putting Control In The Right Hands
With fuel prices and interest rates on the rise, multichannel merchants are taking a closer look at how to cut total costs of goods by driving down per unit transportation costs.
Trimming Your Transportation Costs
Along with death and taxes, multichannel merchants can count on rising transportation costs. The chief culprit for increasing costs is fuel, which affects
Live from NCOF: Online Procurement Changing LTL
Transportation is no longer a commodity but a strategic decision thanks to online procurement, said Brad Gregory, director of sales and software alliances for SMC, a consultancy on less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping, during his Tuesday session,
Assurance policy
Daniel Knight is the director for fulfillment quality assurance (QA) for Home Shopping Network’s Roanoke, VA, distribution center. HSN is part of New
Parcel carriers release new rates for 2006
It’s that time of year again: No, not the time for keeping New Year’s resolutions, but for absorbing the new parcel carrier rates announced last month
Cost confusion
Logistics is hardly the stuff of controversy, but a session on logistics costs at this year’s meeting of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
FedEx Announces 2006 Rates
Effective Jan. 2, Federal Express Corp.
UPS Announces 2006 Rate Hikes
United Parcel Service announced rate hikes for most of its U.S. small-package services, effective Jan. 2. The new rates include a 3.9% increase in commercial ground services and a 5.5% increase in air and international services.