3PL Perspectives

TIA continues to monitor the coronavirus outbreak and its impacts to our industry. In follow-up to our announcement on Monday, the TIA 2020 Capital Ideas Conference & Exhibition has been rescheduled to Aug. 19-22 in Austin, Texas.

Freight visibility in the food supply chain has taken on new dimensions becoming not only essential for improving regulatory compliance, efficiency and profitability, but a must-have to proactively adjust to challenges that threaten interconnected supply chains.

The lure of free next-day and two-day delivery has changed replenishment dramatically in favor of LTL service over FTL. But issues with pricing and volume between 3PLs and FTLs have spurred the creation of new technology that levels the playing field.

Many well-managed businesses still have a somewhat myopic view of sales commissions. Prosperio Group founding partner and compensation strategist, Beth Carroll, discusses three basic methods of compensation, that when combined offer up to nine different methods for calculating commission payments.

Compliance with the Hazardous Materials Regulations takes on new dimensions in the wake of several high-profile cases exposing wanton disregard for state and federal laws.

Dave Sapienza | 3Gtms From truer visibility to more flexible routing capabilities, modern transportation management ...