Millions of packages are shipped daily across the U.S. in a massively intricate web of supply chain ecosystems.
At the company level, shippers deal with highly complex supply chains of their own. For example, a retailer may send thousands of orders daily across the globe, and all of these orders have variable requirements that must be considered before products can ever leave a warehouse.
A shipper must consider factors like:
- When does the shipment need to be delivered?
- Is the product fragile?
- Is...
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