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Tips for E-Tailers

Three Reasons Why You Should Outsource

by George Muha on May 17, 2012

I know I have you for about 30 seconds before you jump to another site so I am going to get right into it. Two of the most common outsourced functions of the supply chain these days are transportation and warehousing.  With more and more companies feeling pressure to focus on outsourcing I thought it [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Your Supply Chain

by George Muha April 18, 2012

Boo!  Don’t be so jumpy!  It’s just a supply chain.  But don’t think you’re the only one that gets freaked out by this part of their operation.  The majority of U.S. companies operate a subpar supply chain.  In my opinion, less than 10% of companies have any kind of plan mapped out concerning this part [...]

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What Can a Company Do if Freight is Eating Away Profits?

by George Muha March 25, 2012

Recently I wrote an article titled Knowing How Freight Relates as a Percentage of Invoice.  That article might have hit home for some companies because, believe it or not, many companies have no freaking idea how freight relates as a percentage of invoice.  Nor do they know what to do even if they did know [...]

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Knowing How Freight Relates as a Precentage of Invoice

by George Muha March 18, 2012

Some popular business sayings that are relevant today are “companies don’t know what they don’t know”, “knowledge is power” and “you cannot manage what you cannot measure”.  Despite the fact that many executives agree with these quotes and can even be heard saying them, most do not utilize this methodology where it counts the most…within [...]

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The Benefits of Using a Freight Audit & Payment Company

by George Muha March 11, 2012

I am not sure how to say this so I am just going to come out and say it.  You’re crazy if you are not currently working with a freight audit and payment company!  What makes me say this?  Because there are excellent service providers out there that can probably do this function better, faster [...]

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Keeping it Simple, Understanding Customers Needs

by George Muha February 2, 2012

Replace tech rider to engineer, FOH mixer to sales person, artist to customer service department, tour accountant to budget manager, local sound company to inventory manager and instead of saying “what the venue actually needed” to “what the customer actually needed”.  Now isn’t that life imitating art, I don’t know what is.

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Fuel Price Graph: 2008-2012

by George Muha January 25, 2012

For those of you who tend to be concerned with fuel prices (in other words, all of us), I thought this was a good visual.  Fuel prices have not peaked to the levels of mid 2008 which is a good thing.  But diesel did rise 29% from 2010 to 2011.  However, the Department of Energy [...]

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You Know You’re In Trouble When You Hear Yourself Say This Phrase

by George Muha January 18, 2012

Do you question the way your company does certain things and wonder if there might be a better way things could be done?  Here’s a simple test to see if your company has any fangled processes in place that take much more time, man power and money than it should.  Simply ask the people who [...]

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Rail, The Other White Meat

by George Muha January 17, 2012

A great alternative to consider when trying to reduce overall transportation costs is rail.  A rail provider can come to your facility and pick up your load just like a truckload carrier.  The difference is for the line haul portion of trip, your shipment is moving via rail road. The down side of using rail [...]

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Creating More Profitable “FREE FREIGHT” Rules

by George Muha January 16, 2012

HAVING AN EQUALIZED “FREE FREIGHT” PROGRAM KILLS PROFITS, SO CHANGE IT It’s common for shippers to have an equalized free freight program.  What I mean by equalized freight program I am talking about offering “free freight” to customers who purchase a certain amount of volume of goods, regardless of their geographical location.  The problem is [...]

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