Five steps to improving your 3PL relationships

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By Gavin van Marle

12/06/2013

This came to us courtesy of the LogisticsMatter news aggregator. A step-by-step guide for how shippers can get the best out of the relationship with their 3PLs. Unlike a lot of other posts on similar – well, basically the same – subjects, this is not written by someone trying to sell a service or some such other, but a group from the University of Tennessee’s centre for executive education. Useful.

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