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Everything You Need to Know About Inventory Management Inventory is one of the most important assets a business manages. Whether you operate a manufacturing company, distribution business, retail operation, or eCommerce store, having the right products available at the right time can directly affect revenue, customer satisfaction, and operating costs. But inventory management is about much more than counting products. It involves knowing what you have, where it is, how quickl

Image Source: iStock | How to Ship Perishable Food Products Across Canada Shipping perishable food products across Canada is not complicated in the way that people sometimes make it sound. But it is specific. And the businesses that get into trouble are almost always the ones who found that out after something went wrong rather than before. Temperature range. Transit time. CFIA compliance. Carrier selection. Documentation. Each one of these is manageable on its own. The chall

Image Source: iStock | Your Shipment Is Stuck at the Canada-US Border: Here Is What To Do You found out your shipment is being held at the border. Your customer is waiting. Maybe a retailer delivery window is closing. Maybe it is a perishable product, and the clock is ticking. The first thing to know is that most cross-border holds are resolvable. They are frustrating and sometimes expensive, but the majority are not catastrophic if you move quickly and know what you are deal

Image Source: Pexels | What Food Manufacturers Get Wrong About Cold Chain Compliance in Canada Most cold chain failures do not happen in transit. They happen in the warehouse. On the loading dock. During the 45-minute window between a trailer backing in and the product getting sealed and moving. In the gap between what your cold chain protocol says should happen and what actually happens when the facility is busy and a driver is waiting. We have been handling temperature-cont

Image Source: Pexel | How to Find a 3PL in Ontario — What to Look For and What to Avoid If you are looking for a third-party logistics provider in Ontario, you are not short of options. There are hundreds of companies in the GTA and the surrounding area that will tell you they can handle your warehousing, your freight, and your distribution. Some of them are telling the truth. Some are telling you what you want to hear. The difference between the two is not always obvious whe

Image Source: Pexels | How to Choose a Warehousing and Distribution Partner At some point, most growing businesses reach the same decision point. Managing storage and distribution internally is no longer efficient, or the current provider is no longer keeping up, and it is time to find a warehousing and distribution partner that can actually support where the business is headed. This decision carries more weight than it might initially seem. The right partner becomes an exten