There is a core principle behind shipping costs; as volume goes up, per unit shipping costs go down. In practical terms, this means it is often to shippers’ advantage to combine shipments (consolidate) whenever possible to get a higher total volume, which will, in turn, lower overall transportation expenditures. Benefits of Freight Consolidation While saving […]
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Improve Logistics for Your Next Costco Product Promotion
If your food or beverage product is sold at large retailers like Costco, Sam’s Club, BJ’s, or Walmart, you may have had the opportunity to participate in their popular coupon programs — catalogs, or multi-vendor mailers (MVM), sent out nationally to promote major product discounts. Logistically, participation in MVMs means you must ship larger volumes […]
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Logistics Appointments: Success in the Details
One of the most common reasons a shipper will switch their 3PL provider is because of repeated service failures. This includes everything from a truck showing up late, to shifted or damaged product that gets rejected by the consignee. If you are seeing repeat service failures with your freight, ask yourself whether your provider is […]
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Transportation Chargebacks: How Beverage Manufacturers Can Avoid Extra Expenses
A version of this article originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of Beverage World Magazine. While it’s safe to say beverage companies watch their trucking costs closely, unplanned delivery related expenses still manage to pile up. These incurred costs include the chargebacks and other penalties that every beverage company shipping to large ‘big box’ retailers […]
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Walmart’s New Standards: Overcoming Retail Compliance Challenges
https://sfa.ziplinelogistics.com/blog/walmart-otif-may-2019/ Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder and President of Zipline Logistics, shares with Logistics Management how companies can overcome the challenges presented by Walmart’s new on-time delivery standards. Effective February 2017, Walmart is going to require its suppliers (shippers) to meet a two-day shipping window instead of its previous four-day window, as well as up its required […]
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Zipline Logistics Named as One of Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers
(Columbus, Ohio) – Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named Zipline Logistics to its 2016 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers list. The Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers list serves as a resource guide of third-party logistics and cold storage […]
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Shifting Away from Generalist Strategies in Logistics
A version of this article originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Global Trade Magazine. Remarkably, the term third-party logistics (3PL) made its way into industry vocabulary just over 20 years ago. New transportation and warehousing companies seemed to materialize overnight and solutions to complex supply chain issues abounded. We entered into an age […]
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