If you are in the business of shipping goods, you’ve noticed that associated costs continue to escalate. This is affecting players across the supply chain industry, from freight forwarders and last mile providers to OTR truckload carriers, LTL carriers, and freight brokers. Logistics and warehouse...
The Amazon Effect and Final Mile Delivery According to Forbes’ Insights, the rise of the “Amazon” effect is changing distribution patterns. “In particular, customer demands for ever more rapid fulfillment are forcing businesses of all kinds to warehouse their goods ever closer to intermediate and end-customers.”...
The Request for Quotation (RFQ) process must be updated. At a recent meeting of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, Bill Rooney, VP of strategic development for Kuehne + Nagel, said that RFQs are a time suck. He explained that “many of them are way too complicated” and...
On March 19th, PA Governor Tom Wolf ordered all non-essential businesses in Pennsylvania to close physical locations in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. As of March 30, 2020, Pennsylvania has 4,843 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 63 deaths. Here at Blue Eagle Logistics,...
What is cross-docking? The name, cross-docking, originates in the actual process of receiving products through an inbound dock and transferring these products across the dock to an outbound transportation dock. A logistics practice in which inbound products from suppliers or manufacturers arrive on trucks/ trailers/ rail...
What is last mile delivery? Last mile services are getting lots of press in transportation circles these days, but what exactly is last mile delivery? Simply put, a last mile provider handles freight over the first or final link in cargo’s journey from origin to destination. Last...
“Ever-increasing electronic apps are designed to enable us to accomplish more tasks in less time, thus supposedly making our lives easier – when in reality, the devices are also disrupting, at supersonic speeds, everything in our lives.” ~Rob Hackbarth From technologies that match customers with carriers...
Free Shipping? Shipping isn’t free. The Amazon Effect has perpetuated the myth that shipping is free. Free shipping has created consumer expectations that far-exceed the parameters for quality final mile services, especially in the white glove delivery market which requires trained, professional delivery teams, as well...
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.― John C. Maxwell Firefighters When your house is burning down, you want the best firefighting team around, right? You want those trained...
Economic Boom in Pennsylvania The Lehigh Valley (LV) is experiencing an economic boom. In a recent chamber article, Dr. Kamran Afshar, the LV’s chief economist, explains that 2018 payroll employment grew at a rate of 1.9 percent, higher than the national level of 1.8 percent. Dr....
