Scaling strategically with shared warehousing and fulfillment

Business growth can happen unexpectedly these days due to the rise of ecommerce, the sudden popularity of “viral” products and busier-than-usual peak seasons. To keep up with demand and build customer trust, a company needs to easily scale its warehousing, distribution and fulfillment capabilities. The right logistics partner can help businesses do just that.

While best-in-class third-party fulfillment services were previously only accessible to large enterprises, shared warehousing and...

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Find Out How You Can Measure Innovation!

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  • Innovation is an ephemeral process that is difficult to quantify, but that is even more reason to measure it. 
  • The ideas must be ranked in terms of size and viability.
  • A “ballpark” cost-benefit analysis of a new idea should identify significant cost barriers to the idea and determine its fiscal viability. 

Most people believe that creativity happens by chance—like a lightbulb going off in the head of a cartoon character. Certainly, this is true, but how does an...

https://mfame.guru/find-out-how-you-can-measure-innovation/

CP, Maersk ink deal to develop Vancouver transload and distribution facility

A photograph of a train hauling intermodal containers.

Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) and Maersk have agreed to build a “world-class” transload and distribution facility at CP’s intermodal facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, that will be ready to serve customers in 2021.

As part of the agreement, CP will shuttle the containers of Maersk’s customers to and from the ocean terminals at the Port of Vancouver. The arrangement “will rely on the substantial use of rail instead of truck in the Vancouver market,” the parties said.

The new multicommodity...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cp-maersk-ink-deal-to-develop-vancouver-transload-and-distribution-facility

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