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From e-commerce shifts to navigating multimodal logistics changes, Executive Insights is your source for the latest news and analysis.

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4 Tips: Improve Profitability Despite Rising Transportation Costs

Feeling the pinch of carrier surcharges and other rising transportation costs?

Strategic Supply Chain Planning

The COVID pandemic accelerated many trends in consumer behavior. It exposed risks bot...

7 FAQs Answered with Supply Chain Visibility

Today, organizations that invested in supply chain visibility are more successfully m...

Outsourcing in Logistics Management? 4 Questions to Ask

With the increasing complexity and bottom-line impact of logistics, many companies ar...

Reverse Logistics: Charting a Course to Protect Profit

Through the trust built over the years by positive e-commerce experiences, consumers ...

Reducing Transportation Costs in the Returns Process

US consumers have been on a major shopping spree since the pandemic began in 2020, re...

Transportation Insight Holding Company releases a new free TMS

Atlanta-based Transportation Insight Holding Company, a provider of non-asset, tech-e...

Operationalizing AI Through Intelligent Data

Digital technology in the supply chain, such as artificial intelligence and machine l...

Dynamic Pricing for Last-Mile Delivery

The ability to optimize routes utilizing algorithms, artificial intelligence and othe...

Using Digital Platforms to Connect Demand to Capacity

In today’s tight transportation market, finding carriers to cover loads has become ...

Where is zip code 99999? Address Verification Makes a Big Difference

Has your company ever shipped a product to the 99999 zip code?

BOPIS Shipping: What Does It Mean?

Shipping used to be a linear exercise. A manufacturer shipped products to a distribut...

Manage Supply and Demand Swings with a Digital Logistics Platform

Capacity restraints, rising costs and labor shortages continue to plague the logistic...

TI Releases Free TMS so SMB Shippers Can Hook Up to New Network Platform

Transportation Insight (TI), a provider of tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solut...

Same-Day Deliveries Are the New Norm

According to a survey from parcel technology provider, Bringg, 99% of retai...

Address Verification API – Is It Really a Must?

To cut to the chase – yes. Mistakenly typing “street” instead of “avenue” f...

Supply Chain Risk Mitigation with Data Visibility

Investment in effective data visibility and security can be capital-intensive, so par...

Challenges with the Returns Management Process

Sustainability initiatives have had additional positive impacts during the pandemic: ...

Disruption in Transportation: Prepare for the Unknown

As companies worldwide grapple with disruption in transportation, including bottlenec...

Supply Chain Visibility: Sustainability’s Positive Ripple Effect

Sustainability initiatives have had additional positive impacts during the pandemic: ...

Audit Logistics for 10-20% Transportation Savings

Markets are changing almost daily. Transportation cost savings are frequently availab...

Logistics Carrier Management: Best Practices for Transportation Partners

If you are planning for the most effective transportation program, establishing a tai...

The Total Economic Impact of Managed Transportation: 251% ROI

Companies across North America are seeing transportation costs rise as a percentage o...

Logistics Technology ROI Depends on Behavior Change

Your organization can realize benefit from your Transportation Management System (TMS...

Supply Chain Optimization through Visibility

For many organizations, a rear-view perspective on supply chain disruption reveals op...

What Does FOB Mean?

Transportation Insight clients and prospects often ask the meaning of the acronyms. B...

TMS Login Won’t Solve All Your Logistics Challenges

Transportation Management Systems are more accessible to small and mid-cap companies ...

TMS System: Why Consider TMS Transportation?

What is transportation management system? Why use a transportation management system?...

Most in-Demand Worker These Days Is the Warehouse Worker

According to a LinkedIn report, warehouse workers on the frontlines of e-commerc...

What is Peak Season?

When checking out various online dictionaries for a definition of peak season, one fi...

Supply Chain Bullwhip Effect: 5 Tips to Avoid Disruption

When the COVID pandemic hit, supply chain managers were suddenly all talking about th...

The Bullwhip Effect: Managing Swings in Demand

All it takes is one flick of the wrist to create a violent “crack!” of the bullwh...

Why Audit Parcel Service Now? Here’s 4 Reasons

With more than half of customers going elsewhere after a poor experience, now is not ...

6 Qualities to Look for in an E-Commerce Logistics Partner

Much like a successful marriage, the relationship between a shipper and its logistics...

Margin Management: Why Are You Selling Money-Losing SKUs?

If you can't pinpoint which products are and aren’t making your company money, it�...

Shipping Surcharges: 3 Ways to Manage During Peak

You may not be able to keep parcel carriers from imposing unexpected peak season cost...

Logistics Outsourcing? 4 Things Your Partner Needs.

When you approach the insource-outsource decision-making process, it is important to ...

Outsource Logistics: Which Model is Right for You?

When you are not accustomed to an outsourcing model the concept can seem pretty black...

Post-Pandemic Tactics for E-Commerce Logistics Advantage

The role of e-commerce in keeping the United States and world economies going was nev...

Use Logistics to Compress Cash-to-Cash Cycles

If you want to see CEOs and CFOs sit up and take notice during one of our presentatio...

Supply Chain Data Visibility to Plan, Adjust, Communicate

Supply chain visibility empowers you to reduce risk and improve customer service. Tha...

The Relativity of the Supply Web

In Albert Einstein’s famous equation “E=mc2,” both energy and mass are replacea...

Supply Chain Visibility Needs Determined by Business Objectives

For many organizations, a rear-view perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic reveals oppo...

Engineering and Analyzing the Supply Web

No matter how you manage it, transformation always comes with costs. When moving from...

Cost Changes Hide in Shift to Online Fulfillment

As the global pandemic confined consumers to their homes, record volumes of online sa...

Building Lasting Data Partnerships in the Supply Web

The term supply chain dates back to only 1982. In an interview with Financial Times, ...

Mitigating Parcel Delivery Challenges in a Post-Coronavirus World

After months of staying at home to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic i...

How the Global Supply Web is Taking Over for Supply Chains

For centuries, we have all relied on supply chains to deliver critical goods. The bes...

Disruption – Not Necessity – Is the Mother of Supply Chain Improvement

Perhaps you’ve heard the famous proverb: “Necessity is the mother of invention.�...

How E-Commerce is Driving the Supply Web Evolution

We are living in a rare and significant time in human history. Anyone alive in 2020 w...

Parcel Volume Growth Spurs Retail Caps

While a historic drop in April’s sales numbers revealed pain experienced across the...

From Micro to Macro: The Effect of Social Distancing on the Supply Chain

As the nation begins the process of reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s ...

Serve Customers With a Personalized Supply Chain

Consumers have steadily been shifting to a more customized shopping experience in rec...

Master Omnichannel Fulfillment, Enhance Experience

In the 1980s, Service Merchandise was a retail force. The “catalog showroom” shop...

Indirect Supply Management Matters in Today’s Environment

As companies adjust to life altered by the novel Coronavirus outbreak, manufacturing ...

Blockchain in Supply Chain: Can You Trust Your Data Sharing Partners?

Supply chain strategies after the COVID-19 disruption will likely be significantly di...

Examine Indirect Spend to Drive COVID-19 Cost Savings

In times of crisis, immediate challenges that jeopardize your ability to operate and ...

Omnichannel: 3 Ways Service Merchandise Got it Right

In retail, timing is everything. Deliver what consumers want where and when they want...

Monitor, Pivot, Perform: Strategies for Unexpected Parcel Delivery Peaks

It seems a perpetual peak season is rapidly becoming the new norm in small package sh...

Supply Chain Risk Management Lessons from the Military

When you think about the biggest risk to your company, what comes to mind? A data bre...

Data Analysis: What is Your Data Trying to Tell You?

The drive for visibility across the supply chain is based on the assumption of accura...

The Service Merchandise Experience: Omnichannel in the ‘80s

Knowing that customers flocked to its stores to “experience” a select number of p...

What Do We Do with All These Returns? E-commerce and Reverse Logistics

Consumer products manufacturers’ e-commerce operations need a reverse logistics pro...

The Logistics of Valentine’s Day: Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Logistics of Valentine’s Day

Delivery Speed Drives E-Commerce Fulfillment Success

"I feel the need . . . the need for speed!"

Drop Shipping: The Path to E-Commerce Growth for CPG Companies

If your well-established Consumer Packaged Goods company is like many legacy brands, ...

Improve E-Commerce Experience Without Sacrificing Profitability

In 2018, U.S. consumers spent $517.6 billion online, up 15% over the prior year. E-co...

5 Ways to Build an E-Commerce Delivery Engine that Wins

In an era where delivery choice and speed are becoming fundamental expectations for e...

Racing Amazon Parcel: 5 Red Flags for Retailers

Consumer expectations are fueling retailers’ response to service demands. Organizat...

7 Pitfalls Imperil Indirect Spend Management

Indirect Spend presents complex challenges but brings opportunities for increased eff...

Indirect Spend: Harvest Savings, Improve Competitive Advantage

Profit hides in Indirect Spend. When it comes to finding and protecting that profit, ...

Parcel Audit Services Power Network Optimization

Large volume parcel shippers have a huge transportation budget laden with line items....

Reduce Parcel Shipping Costs: 3 Alternative Strategies

Shipping cost management challenges are second nature for many businesses. Optimizing...

Exploring the Importance and Challenges of Secondary Packaging

The e-commerce explosion is leaving retailers scrambling to differentiate themselves ...

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