Kanban’s Most Popular Blog Posts of 2021
From the warehouse labor shortage to the opening of the brand new CSX Carolina Connector, many blog topics resonated with readers in 2021. The following 3 blog posts were the most popular with our readers this year.
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Advantages of Basing Your Distribution Center in North Carolina
North Carolina, the Tar Heel State. Home to the Great Smokey Mountains, legendary college basketball, and the scene of the Wright Brothers’ first successful flight at Kitty Hawk. In fact, the “First in Flight” motto still appears on the state’s…
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What is contract warehousing?
Your products need warehousing for storage and distribution. But ‘warehousing’ is a broad term with many different definitions. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at one type of warehousing as we answer the question, “what is contract warehousing?”
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Top Kanban Logistics Posts of 2019
Kanban’s blog covers a wide range of topics. So, it’s always interesting to see the ones that resonated most with our readers. In this post, we’ll look back at our best-read blog posts of 2019.
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Looking to Add an East Coast eCommerce Fulfillment Center? Consider Eastern North Carolina
Business growth should always be a good thing. But growth is not without its headaches – especially in the world of eCommerce, where many companies struggle to keep up with consumer expectations for rapid fulfillment. This ‘struggle to keep up’…
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Warehousing: Who’s Liable for What in a 3PL Relationship?
Liability. It’s a term that most people like to avoid, and we can understand why. It conjures up thoughts of “things going wrong.” No one likes that, so best to avoid the subject, right? Wrong. Avoidance simply leads to finger-pointing…
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10 Questions to Ask Your Temperature-Controlled Warehouse Provider
Sensitive materials require a sensitive supply chain. For makers of foods, pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive products, such a supply chain is one that can protect the temperature requirements of products from production all the way to final delivery. The temperature-controlled…
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Get to Know Your 3PL’s Warehouse Inventory Management System
When companies look to partner with a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, they might say that they’re looking for a ‘warehousing partner.’ In reality, the modern warehousing partnership involves much more than traditional warehousing (i.e., storage of products) – it involves…
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How Food Logistics Companies Can Be a Key Ally to Importers
As your imported food products make their way from overseas production to American homes and restaurants, you likely entrust part of your stateside operation to 3PLs and other food logistics companies. What you may not realize, however, is that many…
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