Supply chain overheads such as inventory, warehousing equipment, technology, storage facility expenses, product handling and processing, distribution and returns can be a major drain on your resources.

All these expenses add up quickly and exist even if your inventory isn’t moving or if it is your slow season. Recruiting and managing your warehousing team can also be a major challenge which adds to your overhead costs.

A 3PL provider can assist your business in managing warehousing space, labour and distribution specifically based on your inventory needs across slow, seasonal, and/or peak business periods. They can also add more locations that are closer to your customers enabling your to improve your customer service offering.

Read on to learn how you can lower your overheads with 3PL Brisbane.

Smart businesses know that outsourcing your freight operation to a freight forwarder provides greater operational efficiencies and increases customer satisfaction.

However, to get better control on performance and operations cost, it is imperative for you to understand the sea freight and air freight services you are engaging beyond a quotation.

There are many factors freight forwarders can fail to discuss or mention in their quotations that can have a huge impact on your operational performance. Origin and destination charges, various surcharges, vessel routing, historical transit time, cut offs and country specific condition are facts that you must know before engaging a freight forwarder.

Read on to learn 6 hidden facts to consider before outsourcing your freight.

Earlier this year, BCR announced the opening of a new warehouse facility in Adelaide – offering comprehensive warehousing services such as receiving of goods, storage, order fulfilment, consolidation, deconsolidation, container packing/unpacking, and value added services.

As the company continues to expand its national footprint, BCR is proud to offer another Australia-based warehousing facility in Melbourne, Victoria. Located in the Melbourne International Airfreight Centre (MIAC), the new warehousing service is the fifth warehouse to be added to our list of national locations across Australia in the last 18 months.

Read more about BCR’s new Melbourne Warehousing facility below.

One major challenge for business owners today is keeping overhead expenses in check. To achieve a healthy profit margin, businesses need to keep their overheads as low as possible across all of their operating fields.

Using 3PL providers for warehousing, distribution and logistics services can assist you, as a business owner or senior manager in lowering your overhead costs as 3PLs service fees are charged according to a pay per use model which supports you to achieve better bottom-line results. By using pay per use fees, your business avoids costs of administration, additional manpower, transportation, IT and utility overhead expenses.

Read on to learn how to control your overhead expenses with 3PL providers.

With many Australian businesses continuing to expand their supply chain across more locations, logistics managers need to consider how they will meet their supply and demand timeframes.

The air freight industry continues to evolve with airbus design and volume capacity expanding to meet market cargo demands, but how will the logistics industry continue to service customers as their volume and destinations increase across Australia?

Read on to learn how unmanned aircraft could be the future for air freight in Australia.

As a logistics or freight manager, staying up to date with the sea freight market in Australia will help you economically manage your resources with current information on space availability and sea freight rates. 

Read on for industry updates on the North East Asia, South East Asia, United States and Europe trade lanes, and the current market status of the shipping industry.

Read on to learn how you can use your resources more economically with 3PL providers in Sydney.

In a highly competitive economic climate, companies need to focus on their core business and engage a third party logistics (3PL) provider to manage their logistics.

By outsourcing your logistics to a third party logistics provider you can heavily reduce the risks associated with managing your own supply chain as well as minimise the cost of having your own resources manage your logistics. Research shows that managing your logistics in-house and suboptimally can have a huge impact on the overall profits and sustainability of your business. 

Read on to learn the key risks an effective third party provider can minimise for your business.