How to Negotiate Your Carrier Contract: A $400K Case Study
Everyone offers me better rates, but I don’t want to switch carriers—I want to optimize. Can you help me? That was the opening line from a Logistics Ops Director at a medical supplies manufacturer in the Midwest. No preamble. Just a problem and a question. It’s a situation I’ve come across more than once. When […]
Six Steps to Keep Your Carrier Costs Under Control
There’s a sentence I’ve heard more times than I can count after showing a Logistics or Operations Director how we work: “I knew there had to be a way to systematically spend less on shipping. I just didn’t know where to start.” Fair enough. Most Directors already have a pretty good idea that something isn’t […]
How GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Are Changing Reverse Logistics
If you’ve been in logistics long enough, you know that the biggest operational headaches rarely come from logistics itself. They usually start somewhere else, and months later we feel the impact. Such is the case with GLP-1 drugs. GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound are prescription weight-loss drugs that are rapidly changing […]