Businesses are adapting to the ever-changing technological advancements. This is evident in the freight forwarding industry. This industry is worried about these changes and what the future holds. The new macro trends are causing confusion and uncertainty to businesses within the freight forwarding sector. In this article, we are going to look at some of … Read more…
How Late Delivery Costs Your Delivery Business
Logistics in the UK is one of the hardest processes of the supply chain. The most common challenge is late and missed deliveries. This is experienced both ways by the consumer and retailer. According to research done by PCA Predict missed or late deliveries costs more than 65% of eCommerce stores. This has a negative … Read more…
Road Haulage revolutions
Everything is changing in the road haulage industry – some things by design, some by accident and many as hauliers scramble to keep up with changes in legislation, demand and the road haulage environment. Road haulage systems change in the EU To begin with, haulage between the UK and the EU has dropped by more … Read more…
Elastic logistics – the future of supply chain?
Elastic logistics allow companies to operate supply chains more efficiently in the face of fluctuations, upscaling and downscaling or seasonal activity. Until quite recently, lean or just-in-time business models have predominated in the warehousing and logistics sectors but while both models function well for one end of the chain (manufacturing or value added processes) and … Read more…
Improving warehouse and distribution through learning from COVID-19
Benefiting from challenges in the warehousing world Warehouse and distribution users, and organisations, have definitely been on a steep learning curve in recent months. From the panic buying of the early days through to the recent exhortations to ‘go out and buy’, warehousing and distribution have borne the brunt of changed buying and delivery … Read more…
The evolution of logistics services
Since the beginning of civilization, mankind has needed to transport items from one location to another. As we evolved, we became better at getting things to where they needed to go. Improved equipment and resources meant that we could get more items to more locations with less effort. Advancements in technology allowed us to hastily … Read more…
Connecting with Your Customers to Prepare for Brexit
We can all breathe a sigh of relief as Brexit has been delayed once more, giving us more time to figure out exactly how to handle each potential outcome. A deal, no deal, a bad deal, all of these require us to make some serious preparations; both fo our businesses and our customers. The main … Read more…
Overcoming growing pains in your warehousing and distribution
As many businesses grow, they can start to experience difficulties. Stock control management can be one business area that reveals weaknesses in business structure and growth. The way this often emerges is in one or more of these four areas: Increased costs – every business will experience fluctuations in margin and this is … Read more…
Road Haulage Essex
Essex road haulage, and in fact a lot of the economy of Essex in general, has been historically based around The Confederation of Cinque Ports– a collection of coastal towns in Essex, Kent, Sussex which were brought together to support military and trade activities in England back in the 1060’s. It’s hard to understand how … Read more…
3 ways you can improve your warehousing and distribution
How to improve your warehousing and distribution without breaking your budget For many warehouse managers, this sounds too good to be true, but at http://www.dmg-freight.com/we know that there are simple, effective techniques that can really benefit warehouse management to improve your warehousing and distribution … and they don’t have to cost a fortune. … Read more…
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