Tackling the tariff trap
Are there more answers than questions?
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly targeted by major logistics players in the supply chain.
So much so that there’s been a great deal of interest since Covid times to promote the SME approach: easier to win and manage, albeit very opportunistic by nature, they are shippers that have a LOT to offer.
(Here comes your ’think again’ corner.)
But
The transactional dollars and richer margins that can often be made (let’s be sector/vertical-agnostic here), even if liked very much by their logistics ...
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