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What are the key benefits of an automated warehouse?
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Let's face it, investing in warehouse automation is expensive, complex and potentially risky. However, have you evaluated the cost of an inefficient warehouse? Initially, it's zero, but in the long run, the hidden costs, such as stock-outs, low service levels, unhappy customers, etc. could be fatal to your business.
Depending on your budget and needs, warehouse automation syst...
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Avoiding the Marketplace Gamble: e-Logistics and Readymade Fulfillment
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Avoiding the Marketplace Gamble: e-Logistics and Readymade Fulfillment
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Brands operating online strive to create high-quality, personalized customer experiences. The quality of those experiences effectively represents the brand: low-friction, pleasant, reliable, and informative experiences make customers enjoy interacting with the vendor and keep them coming back for more of the same.
Online experiences comprise of two areas of interaction
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How to cope with ocean freight unstability in pandemic time?
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How to cope with ocean freight unstability in pandemic time?
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Ocean freight services have been and are still strongly obstructed by the COVID-19 crisis. This creates extra strain on logistics or supply chain departments in global organizations that need to juggle with surge in freight rates and surcharges, occurring in tandem with reduced service liability, a key performance indicator for shippers and supply chain managers, If you’re in ch...
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Florence
Gautrais
Global Ocean Freight Director at GEODIS
Florence has been an executive in the domain of Ocean freight and freight forwarding solutions for more than 20 years. She set-up Ocean freight and logistics end to end solutions for internatio...
Why Forecasting is a Fundamental Engine for Business Growth
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Why Forecasting is a Fundamental Engine for Business Growth
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Accurately balancing supply and demand management, optimizing inventory levels, and forecasting future needs is challenging. Multiple internal and external factors impact every part of the supply chain—understanding these risks, and mitigating them, will boost the accuracy and reliability of logistics forecasting.
Here are five ways organizations can leverage reliable forecast...
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Evelyn
McCarter
Contract Logistics Marketing Analyst at GEODIS, Americas
Evelyn is the Contract Logistics Marketing Analyst for the Americas with GEODIS. She writes content for the GEODIS Americas marketing team with the help of experts in supply chai...
Sustainable Aviation Fuels, a new pathway for shippers to decarbonize air freight
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Sustainable Aviation Fuels, a new pathway for shippers to decarbonize air freight
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As the world takes to the skies after nearly two years of pandemic, it does so with renewed enthusiasm for decarbonizing the aviation industry. If you work in aviation, or in transportation more generally, you have probably come across the concept of sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, in articles and via your LinkedIn feed. In this article, we look at what SAF is, why it is a gr...
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Alexander
Höglund
Senior Advisor Sustainability at GEODIS
Alexander Höglund is a senior expert on sustainable transformation in the logistics sector. His duties range from sustainable strategies, energy transformation, data analysis and more. Alexande...
Logistics automation: 4 key factors to consider before investing
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Investing in warehouse automation seems like the way to go, but how do you make sure the technology you choose will solve your issues and be future proof ?
Download our White Paper : An Overview of Investing in Warehouse Automation
Labor costs and availability
With the dramatic growth of online sales, companies are struggling to fill open positions in their warehouses, e...
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How Good Data (and Understanding It) Can Help Build Your Brand
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Knowing how to properly look at your data to find ways to optimize consolidation can boost your efficiency and fine mitigation.
Joining a Retail Consolidation Services program not only provides you with the immediate benefits of consolidated shipping but also builds the groundwork of an efficient supply chain by combining a mixture of data and expertise.
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Evan
Glick
Transportation Management Marketing Analyst
Evan is the Marketing Analyst for GEODIS supporting our Transportation Management line of business in the Americas Region. Evan is a seasoned marketer who writes content alongside our GEODIS subje...
A look back at two years of the pandemic: the growing challenges surrounding the supply chain
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During the pandemic, several events demonstrated the importance of an efficient and effective supply chain at the local level. In order to dispense masks, antibacterial gel and vaccines to all their citizens, governments needed to take on the role of buyers. Airlifts have been set up in order to supply stores and health centers in direct contact with the local populations, such ...
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Drive Customer Loyalty with an efficient returns management solution
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With the intensification of e-commerce competition, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate your offer. Consumers know this well — as do an increasing number of business buyers, incidentally — and details, such as an easy and convenient returns process, can affect a buying decision. Indeed, low- or no-cost expedited delivery and a flexible and easy returns policy a...
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How to Optimize Duties & Taxes in Your Cross-Border Supply Chain Operations?
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When shipping internationally, computing landed cost is crucial to ensure all associated costs are included when moving products around the globe. For most companies, freight cost is by far the largest spend in any cross-border transactions. However, it is also true that, many multinational corporations are paying millions of dollars in duties and taxes annually when their goods...
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Kian Chuan
Chang
Regional Director – APAC & ME, Customs Brokerage & Trade Compliance
Dr. KC Chang is currently the Head of Customs Brokerage, Asia Pacific & Middle East region for GEODIS Logistics, based in Singapore Regional Office. Dr. ...