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Situation Files #10: The freight classification conundrum solved

How we helped a client get their supply chain from struggling to thriving in 3 months The first 90 days - Some situations happen in a flash. Others pl...

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Logistics Management | Pricing | On-Time Delivery

Situation Files #9: The first 90 days

How we helped a client get their supply chain from struggling to thriving in 3 months Nine situation files deep, we’ve come to realize that “situation...

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DIY | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence

Five easy (and not in the least magical) ways to make your supply chain go faster

The logistics sector is all about speed. In an era of unprecedented supply chain volatility, customers still expect deliveries to arrive with quasi-ma...

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Logistics Management | Transportation Models | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence | SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Your no-obligation supply chain analysis - Part III

How deep does the deep dive go? This blog post is the finale of our no-obligation supply chain analysis series. To recap, at the end of our blog posts...

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Logistics Management | Transportation Models | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence

Burdened by a dedicated fleet of transportation vehicles? We can fix that.

Does your company’s supply chain rely on a dedicated fleet of vehicles? Do you feel locked into that approach, perhaps owing to some taxing combinatio...

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Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Business Intelligence | Just In Time | Rapid Response

JIT Delivery: How to make it work

JIT: Here are three letters that can strike fear into the heart of even the most seasoned supply chain manager. This jittery little acronym refers to ...

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Pricing Strategy | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence

Adam and Eve (& Stan): Why supply chain software can’t beat expertise

Way back in the 1960s the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) started experimenting with a weird concept. Their idea was to see if co...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Rapid Response

From proactive to rapid response

Since we started operation as a 3PL nearly a quarter of a century ago, IL2000 has invested considerable time and energy into fixing supply chain issue...

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Logistics Management | Case Studies | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Distributor | History of Supply Chain | Logistics History and Speculation | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs

When big things come in big packages

New York City Harbor. 1885. June 17th … about 6:30 pm. With your time machine safely concealed in an alley under an old paint-splattered tarp, you sit...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain | Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Automotive

Lifting the automotive aftermarket out of crisis

The North American automotive aftermarket industry may be facing the most daunting range of ongoing supply chain and distribution challenges to date, ...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | Consumer Goods | On-Time Delivery | Consumer Demand | Freight Costs

The cosmetics industry and the supply chain at its foundation

The cosmetic and personal care industries are growing at a breakneck pace.With global sales of $483 billion in 2020 and an annual growth rate of 4.75%...

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