Airfreight moves important cargo around the world quickly, but for a price. Aviation is a complex industry, and airfreight is no exception, meaning that the cost to ship something via air changes based on the originating airport. Dubai’s DXB airport offers some of the...
How Paying Attention to Small Things Yields Big Things. Your purchasing team is charged with finding the best raw materials and components at a price advantage to your competition. Lots of hard work and plenty of hard-nosed negotiating go into each vendor negotiation...
Where are You in Mastering Your Inbound? Nobody likes blowing money. Particularly when it puts your company at a competitive disadvantage. But every business has those unexpected expenses—a critical production line goes down or that important software upgrade bid...
Most companies already know the advantage of gaining control over outbound freight costs—low-hanging fruit for anyone wanting to save on their transportation spend. What is much more rare is the company that understands the value of, and takes control over their...
Almost every business that makes something, or distributes something has a shipping department that is responsible to ship that “thing”. Many of those shipping departments are physically located out by the shipping docks and they do a great job arranging the outbound...