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The holiday season can be a make-or-break one for many retail businesses. Statistics from the National Retail Federation (NRF) reveal that retailers earn, on average 19% of their total sales during the last two months of the year. (Or more, depending on the business!) As you prepare for the holiday season, we’ve got five insights for you. These tips will help you optimize your logistics, protect your margins, and keep your holiday stress to a minimum—at least where your business is concerned!   #1: The “Holiday Season” Starts Earlier Every Year Remember the days when the holiday shopping season (semi-)officially kicked off with Black Friday,...

Drayage acts as a crucial link in getting cargo to its final destination. These short-haul trucking services offer vital connections between ports, rail spurs, warehouses, storefronts, and other destinations. In other words, drayage is an essential logistics function that keeps freight moving. By definition, drayage refers to trucking freight over short distances. In this article, we’ll give you a deeper dive on this concept so you can understand why drayage is so vital to logistics. You’ll also understand why you might see a drayage line item on your freight invoice, and you’ll know exactly what you’re paying for when you’re shipping freight. By the way,...

Data drives better decisions. That’s the foundation underpinning supply chain analytics, a discipline that allows organizations to mine insights from its procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, and distribution activities.   Leveraging these insights, companies gain the opportunity to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, better manage potential risks, plan more effectively, and create a more resilient supply chain that’s capable of flexing in response to today’s challenges.   In this article, we’ll walk you through a complete explanation of supply chain analytics: what it is, why it’s important, what benefits it can offer, and what challenges companies might encounter in this arena. With this understanding, you’ll have...

Inbound logistics moves supplies, raw materials, and/or inventory to a business. In other words, inbound logistics provide an organization with the items it needs to sell products to its customers. Given this, it’s easy to see why inbound logistics are absolutely crucial to any business’s supply chain.   In this article, we’ll take a deeper look inbound logistics. What, exactly, qualifies as inbound logistics? How, exactly, do inbound logistics work? (We’ll include examples!) And, maybe most importantly, what benefits and challenges does it present to an organization and its supply chain manager?   With all the answers to these questions, you’ll get a solid foundation...

More than 900,000 TEU pass through the Puerto Rico port system, making it one of the largest in the Caribbean by volume. Plus, when you add in its three airports—including the busiest cargo airport in the Caribbean—Puerto Rico has plenty of capacity for moving freight on and off the island.   If you’re starting a new business in Puerto Rico, or you’re considering working with a new supplier, it’s important to know exactly how long it will take your freight to get to Puerto Rico.   Below, we’ll offer a number of different scenarios to give you an idea of what to expect.   At...

90% of Fortune 500 companies can’t be wrong.   That’s the estimated percentage of America’s largest companies who outsource their logistics and supply chain functions, according to research from Armstrong & Associates, Inc. $63 billion As it stands, the 2023 global logistics outsourcing market was valued at around $63 billion dollars. It’s only expected to grow, reaching $79 billion by 2028. Given all the benefits of logistics outsourcing, its increasing popularity is no surprise. Outsourcing allows an organization to scale fast, increase efficiencies, and access cutting-edge expertise, among many other benefits.   In this article, we’ll show you exactly what it means to outsource your...