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Category:logistics
Posted March 03, 2021 | Logistics, Industry Insights, Shipping
What Supply Chain Delays Mean for 3PL Warehouses
How 3PL Warehouses Can Prepare for Port Congestion and Supply Chain Delays I live in Southern California, home to the largest ports on the west coast: the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach. When we...
Posted December 01, 2020 | Logistics, Industry Insights, Inventory Management, Warehouse Technology
How are Private and Public (3PL) Warehouses Different?
Can You Switch Between Them? Left or right, Coke or Pepsi, private or public. A seemingly binary choice, but it has far more meaning and nuance than people realize. On the one hand you have private...
Posted November 05, 2020 | Logistics, Industry Insights, Peak Season, Ecommerce, Fulfillment
2020 Peak Season Holiday Shipping Deadlines for Ecommerce
Don’t Miss USPS, UPS, and FedEx Cutoff Dates I don’t know about you, but I love buying gifts for the holidays. Every year I make my list, plan my shopping day, and get excited about seeing all the...
Posted November 03, 2020 | Logistics, 3PL Growth, Industry Insights, Third-Party Logistics Industry Trends, Big Data
Industry First: The Third-Party Logistics Warehouse Benchmark Report
What 3PLs Need to Know to Plan for 2021 Every year as we head into the holiday season, I carve out time to reflect on what I’m thankful for and assess what went well or poorly throughout the year....
Posted September 29, 2020 | Logistics, Industry Insights, Ecommerce
Shopping Carts & Marketplaces: Third-Party Logistics Overview
The move to ecommerce has drastically expanded the number of technologies that a third-party logistics (3PL) warehouse must be familiar with. In the Ecommerce Technology Lifecycle whitepaper, we gave...
Posted September 09, 2020 | Logistics, Industry Insights, Third-Party Logistics Industry Trends
It’s a Wrap: The 2020 IWLA Virtual Convention
This year has marked many “firsts”, cementing my newbie status. So far, I bought groceries online for the first time and, like 47% of Americans, I now make fewer trips to the store. I plan to do...
Posted July 24, 2020 | Logistics, Paperless Warehouse, Ecommerce, Inventory Management, Automation
Warehouse Automation for Wine & Spirits
Have you attended a virtual happy hour yet? Or have you tried a "quarantini" at the end of the day? Maybe you're just ready to grab a cold one. Whatever the case, the adage "it’s five o'clock...
Posted July 16, 2020 | Logistics, Third-Party Logistics Industry Trends, Paperless Warehouse, Inventory Management
A History of Warehouse & Inventory Management Systems
A Lookback at WMS Evolution Ever since humans evolved past nomadic hunter/gatherers and farming became a way of life, warehousing has also been a part of that life. However, taking a look back at the...
Posted July 08, 2020 | Logistics, Industry Insights, Third-Party Logistics Industry Trends, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ecommerce
How to Prepare Your 3PL for the Next Wave of COVID-19
What Increased Ecommerce Fulfillment Volumes and More COVID-19 Risk Means for Your Business You can’t watch the news without hearing of record-breaking increases in coronavirus cases,...
Posted May 29, 2020 | Logistics, Cold Storage
How to Overcome Cold Storage Challenges as a 3PL
What 3PLs Operating Cold Storage Warehouses Need to Know About 95% of the food produced within the US goes through third party logistics (3PL) warehouses called “cold storage warehouses”. A cold...