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Companies have been using third parties to take care of many of the logistics of doing business, particularly in transportation, for hundreds of years. But 3PL (third-party logistics) as a formal discipline has only been around for a few decades. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the numbers. For an industry that didn’t…

You need only take a quick look at the numbers to see how popular ecommerce has become, both with consumers and e-retailers. Consumer ecommerce purchases eclipsed a trillion dollars in 2012 and are expected to grow in the healthy double-digits at least through 2017. (emarketer.com) Meanwhile, the number of ecommerce businesses grows at a similar…

The name ‘warehousing’ doesn’t really represent the warehousing business very well. Most people think of warehousing as storing goods until they are needed. But there’s far more involved in modern warehousing and the more you know about it, the better equipped you will be to choose the best warehousing services for your business. Location, Location,…