Is Logistics Outsourcing Right for Your Company?

More shippers today appear to be outsourcing some or all of their logistics.1 How does a company decide that outsourcing logistics is the right choice? This white paper can help companies decide, set reasonable expectations for what outsourcing can contribute to the organization, and how much of a role the company will need to play to achieve the successful business outcomes they seek.

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Pallet Consultants Nationwide

Pallet Consultants is a national pallet management company providing pallet & packaging procurement, recycling services and supply chain optimization programs. Pallet Consultants also provides custom reporting along with data and trend analysis for a very diverse customer base. We are dedicated to providing our customers with innovation & continuous improvement across the entire supply chain.

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Green shipping corridors: leveraging synergies

whitePaper | October 12, 2022

In 2021, as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), 19 countries, including the United States (U.S.), United Kingdom (U.K.), Chile and Australia, signed the Clydebank Declaration, which aims to support the establishment of at least six green corridors by the middle of this decade, intending to scale up over the decade. In April 2022, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced its objective to help set up green shipping corridors and provided high-level guidance on the building blocks for green shipping corridors. Maritime decarbonization is a particularly complex challenge with multiple pathways that are at various levels of technological and operational readiness.

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SECURING THE SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN

whitePaper | August 15, 2022

Cyberattacks are conducted via cyberspace and target an enterprise’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environment or infrastructure; or destroying the integrity of the data or stealing controlled information.1 Recent cyberattacks such as those executed against SolarWinds and its customers, and exploits that take advantage of vulnerabilities such as Log4j, highlight weaknesses within software supply chains, an issue which spans both commercial and open source software and impacts both private and Government enterprises. Accordingly, there is an increased need for software supply chain security awareness and cognizance regarding the potential for software supply chains to be weaponized by nation state adversaries using similar tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

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The Multi-Multi Supply Chain Problem

whitePaper | September 14, 2022

After the COVID shock of 2020, supply chain executives across multiple surveys indicated plans to invest in digital transformation. CEOs acknowledged broken supply chains and poorly managed IT networks and McKinsey & Company found that, over the course of a decade, the average organization was losing close to half of a year’s profits from supply chain disruptions.

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Building the supply chain forward Strategies to mitigate disruption in automotive logistics

whitePaper | April 14, 2022

The automotive supply chain is surrounded by rising uncertainty. Global freight, material and energy networks face significant imbalances and congestion. The industry is struggling with whiplash between shutdowns and pent-up demand in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic – resulting in constraints in the upstream supply of components, higher logistics costs and production losses, as well as depleting finished vehicle inventory.

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Key strategies for successful transportation transformations

whitePaper | November 16, 2022

“Transformational initiatives are truly driven by business needs and technology is an enabler.” This should be the “core” philosophy of any organization taking a step toward transformation. Through this white paper, we will discuss supply chain transformation for transportation operations. Organizations look toward transformational changes when they see significant impact (both cost and longevity) to their future business models, either due to disruptions in the changing world or technologies becoming obsolete

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Freight rail report 2022

whitePaper | October 14, 2022

Freight Rail provides rail network infrastructure and operates rail services over major rail corridors to transport commodities for export, regional and domestic markets. It operates world-class heavy haul coal and iron ore export lines and has extended this capability on the iron ore line to export manganese. The division also transports a broad range of general freight commodities including mining, agricultural, manufactured goods, bulk liquids, containerised freight and automotive

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Spotlight

Pallet Consultants Nationwide

Pallet Consultants is a national pallet management company providing pallet & packaging procurement, recycling services and supply chain optimization programs. Pallet Consultants also provides custom reporting along with data and trend analysis for a very diverse customer base. We are dedicated to providing our customers with innovation & continuous improvement across the entire supply chain.

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