It’s 2022 and tension is in the air – the time for transformative innovation is here
Looking at the challenges of the 2021 economy and it’s challenges in labor, supply chain, and overall costs – businesses are identifying and innovating shortcomings in their logistics operations like never before.
It was a busy December with the holidays washing over the logistics industry as retailers experiencing peaks and every other business in America feeling the effect and looking for solutions to meet their logistics KPIs. These are some of our favorite logistics-themed articles from around the internet.
Supply Chain Bottlenecks Can Loosen With Open Communication // USPack
While it’s tempting for businesses to keep their supply chain challenges an internal matter, open communication with your final mile delivery partner and other shippers is the key to breaking bottlenecks in your supply chain.
Postal Service may lack resources to meet peak delivery needs— OIG report // Feight Waves
USPS is better prepared for peak season deliveries, but labor shortages may continue to be a bottleneck to get packages to their destination on time.
How Target And Walmart Are Closing The Ecommerce Gap With Amazon // Forbes
Closing the ecommerce gap—how Walmart and Target are using their brick-and-mortar stores as fulfillment and distribution centers. Final mile delivery is a key component of this retail initiative – USPack delivers from store for last mile deliveries, repositions inventory regionally, and builds a delivery network within an existing network for our large retail customers.
How Strategic Final Mile Outsourcing Can Boost Your Bottom Line // USPack
What every company wants: your own high-efficiency, high-speed, high-volume, operationally-flexible, seasonally-resilient final mile delivery service. Unless your name is Jeff Bezos, an outsourced final mile delivery partner is a great place to start and scale.
The capacity crunch on workers that’s staggered commerce throughout the world isn’t slowing down any time soon. According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people quitting their jobs was at a record high of 10.4 million by the end of...
Happy holidays to you and your family! This is one of the busiest times of the year for shippers and final mile logistics companies like ours. Through the end of the year, our staff and partners will encounter historic volume increases and will be working around the...
Driver shortages. Limited warehouse capacity. Rising costs. Your in-house logistics team is facing never-before-seen challenges. Now add to this the impact of industry giants like Amazon who have raised the bar for immediacy and efficiency in the final mile—making...
