Supply Chain Management (3)

Supply Chain Management | Core Values

Penny for your thoughts?

Every so often, we nudge the team at IL2000 to answer a weird and open-ended question. What would logistics look like on Mars was one such brain bende...

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Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence

From accurate shipping data to smart shipping decisions: How freight audit builds that bridge

What’s more important to a strong and resilient supply chain: accurate data or critical insight?

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Supply Chain Management | Core Values

Stunning client service: What does that mean really?

“The uniqueness of IL2000’s skills-first approach has attracted a team firmly committed to … stunning client service.” - Logistics company bucks the s...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | Shipping

A day in the life of a shipment with IL2000

Your business runs on shipments. LOTS of shipments. Whether you’re receiving materials critical to your manufacturing process, sending out components ...

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Pricing | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs

Billing errors 101

As many as one in four shipment invoices in the US contain critical errors, Supply Chain Brain reports. Is that not crazy? A full 25% of nationwide sh...

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Distributor | Warehousing | Supply Chain Management

The best antidote for cloudy winter skies is clear logistics planning

Logisticians speak endlessly about time and organization. Rock up to any supply chain management conference, and you’ll see a sea of earnest-looking i...

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Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain Management | Core Values

"OK, let’s do this!" The unlikely (yet necessary) convergence of logistics and bravery

Logistics, you could say, is the art of narrowing down the odds. Do logistics well, and the chance of something going wrong between here and over ther...

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Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs | Core Values

Your no-obligation supply chain analysis - Part II

“How can this deep-dive cost nothing?” Welcome to “how can this thing cost nothing,” the second in our two-part blog series describing IL2000’s unique...

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Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | Business Intelligence

How to solve the toughest supply chain problems

It’s 1839. You are here. How did you get “here” exactly? Well, we won’t bore you with the details. Suffice it to say it involved a time machine. And a...

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Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs | Core Values

Consultancy firms looking for the perfect 3PL, read this first!

There’s this old story about three blindfolded people being led to an elephant and then asked to describe what it is. One reaches out and touches its ...

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Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs

International logistics and the strange case of the Orange Horror from the Deep

In the early 1980s, a man was strolling along a remote stretch of beach in Brittany, France. He’d walked this coastline many times across the years. H...

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Entrepreneurial Spirit | Market Recession | Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management

Late deliveries killing your customer satisfaction? Here’s how you can rebuild customer confidence

Ever heard the dreaded question, “Where’s my shipment?” This is a query you just don’t want to hear from a client. Unfortunately, owing to a litany of...

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