Hindsight is 20/20. It’s too bad. If you use hindsight on some of today’s logistics news headlines, you would have gone out 8 years ago, during the real estate downturn following 2008, and picked up as many logistics centres as you could find. While it’s not news that, on the coattails of the boom in…
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Whether you’re a warehousing and transportation logistics provider, or you use their services, it seems as if there are evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the business every day. And if you don’t keep an eye on what’s happening, you might find yourself behind the wave of customer expectations. Here is just a small cross-section of…
It’s simple logic. Thieves could either steal goods one at a time from a retail outlet, or they could steal an entire truck and get away with thousands of the same item. Cargo theft is nothing new, but as reported by CBC News, it’s on the increase and sophisticated, organized crime networks are targeting the…
Every business has a core competency. If you are a manufacturer, you are good at making a product. If you are a retailer, you are good at selling products. Its core competency is the main driver of a company’s revenue. Most of what your business does outside of its core competency takes time and resources…
Whether yours is an ecommerce start-up, or a full-fledged wholesaler, retailer or B2B supplier, order fulfillment is critical to the success of your business. But a common mistake make is to place an inordinate focus of the sales and fulfillment part of the overall process without giving enough attention to the underlying functions that support…