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Watch: Split Shipments: What They Cost, and How to Avoid Them

Josh Bartel, chief executive officer of Hydrian Inventory Optimization, explains what split shipments are, why they happen, how they increase fulfillment costs, and how they can be avoided.

Josh Bartel

Watch: Dealing With Rate Hikes at FedEx

Data science can help shippers become eligible for the lowest rates from FedEx and others, says Caleb Nelson, chief growth officer at Sifted.

Caleb Nelson

Shippers Explore Transport Alternatives to Manage Congested Freight Networks

Today’s small-vehicle expedited shipping offers shippers faster delivery and increased agility, which can be a competitive advantage in today’s challenging marketplace.

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Watch: What's Happening With Parcel Rates?

Rick Thomas, senior vice president of business development with GEODIS, offers an overview of current parcel carrier rates and surcharges, and what the coming peak season might look like.

Rick Thomas

Majority of Supply Chain Organizations Prioritizing Sustainability

The majority of supply chain organizations surveyed in October and November — 77% — claim to be prioritizing sustainability or to have plans to prioritize it in the coming year.

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Amazon Is Shuttering Some India Businesses Amid Global Cuts

The company said it is exiting meal deliveries as well as a service providing bulk doorstep deliveries of packaged consumer goods to small businesses.

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Watch: How Technology Can Solve the Last-Mile Puzzle

Last-mile logistics is more complicated than first- or middle-mile, and it's changing all the time, says Akash Agarwal, co-founder and chief business officer at Beans.ai.

Akash Agarwal

Watch: Responding to E-Commerce Logistics Challenges in an Uncertain Economy

As online orders begin to plateau or even drop, those providers who ramped up for the pandemic are well-prepared for direct-to-consumer logistics, says Mike McComb, senior vice president of global e-commerce for Pitney Bowes.

Mike Mc Comb

Watch: Understanding the True Cost of Parcel Services

Business intelligence has evolved into a digital tool that can bring a new level of transparency and visibility to the logistics industry, says Josh Dunham, co-founder and chief executive officer of Reveel.

Josh Dunham

Watch: What to Do When Online Orders Go Through the Roof

Online orders skyrocketed during the pandemic, and many third-party logistics providers were not ready, according to Robert Liva, senior channel manager at Pierbridge and Martin Hespeler, vice president of sales at Microlistics, both adjacent technologies at Wisetech Global Group.

Martin Hespeler And Robert Liva

California Looks to Ban Diesel Trucks at Ports by 2035

The conflict highlights the challenges that other states will face as they try to push heavily polluting freight operations toward clean fuels.

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Shoppers Spend Less, Leaving Companies That Deliver Goods Empty for the Holidays

People increasingly want to spend their money in stores, which is bad news for parcel and last-mile delivery companies that benefitted from the online-shopping boom.

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