How many suppliers should you invite to tender? It’s a critical decision that can affect the entire process. Start with the end goal in mind. Ideally, you want three strong contenders by the end of the process. To get there, I usually recommend inviting around five suppliers. Why? Because some will inevitably drop out along the way—particularly in today’s market, where warehousing space is tight, and 3PLs are stretched thin…
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Transport Fleet Utilization
If you run a fleet of delivery vehicles, you will know how hard it is to maximize the capacity and time utilization of the fleet. Here is the Number 1 factor that helps increase that vehicle utilization…
8 Common 3PL Mistakes
In the previous episode, we talk about the common mistakes in logistic outsourcing and provided a few customer tips. This time, we focus on the mistakes that 3PLs sometimes make…
Logistics Outsourcing: Service Specification
Getting this right is an essential foundation to any Logistics Outsourcing activity…