It’s graduation time, meaning that many young people are faced with that burning question: “Well … now what?”

Some of the lucky college grads already have jobs lined up or at least a clear path for their next move. That’s great! But for plenty of others, the end of college means moving back home, often with a load of student debt and no solid career prospects on the horizon.

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I will deliver the goods and answer what all bosses need to hear, but first, let me tell you a real story in my job that led to this post…..
If you have an Issue, Make Sure You Get the Data, the Facts, And Find a Solution
Yesterday I had a scheduled tele-meeting with a fellow manager on our leadership team who manages our data services department.

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Despite a dip in new orders and export sales, the Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was up from 55.4 to 56.2 in May.
The output index rose from 58.2 to 59.

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If you are a freight broker, you must know how time consuming freight bidding is. But it’s something you can’t skip. After all, it helps you get better rates and more value for your money.

Naturally, technology can help with this part of your work.

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In a tight capacity crunch that we are seeing now and as the manufacturing renaissance surges, in part thanks to reshoring, but mostly to the recovering economy and improvements by manufacturers to stay lean and mean, North American shippers, in order to sustain and scale their logistics’ departments, are needing to evolve and employ transportation best practices and a LTL shipping strategy.

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There are a lot of US importers. My research reflects that there are thousands of metric tons imported into the US every year. In 2013, China was our #1 trading partner overall, and #3 for origin of imported goods. The territory of import duties, is not a territory for the uneducated.

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Efficient Consumer Response is All About Going Beyond the Customer’s Value Expectations
Efficient Consumer Response is a strategic concept created by the processed food distribution industry in the U.S. aiming to recover competitive strength. Whether a company can survive depends on whether the company can provide customers with higher values.

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There is no question, as more and more stories about the reshoring movement bubble up to mainstream news, that the state of global manufacturing is in flux and that long-held assumptions about the costs and expenses in manufacturing should no longer be considered accurate.

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In past posts, we’ve suggested that the responsible importer-exporter create, maintain and adhere to an internal trade compliance calendar.

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Top Third Party Logistics Company, Cerasis, and eCommerce Shipping Expert, WebShopApps, offer the Market’s First End-To-End LTL eCommerce Logistics solutions through Freight Shipping Extension

Third Party Logistics company and expert LTL (less-than-truckload) freight management expert, Cerasis Inc.

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