US Foods is opening Chef'store outlets in Merced and Santa Cruz, Calif., this fall, along with one in Winston-Salem, N.C., in December and one in Helena, Mont., in early 2023. The additional stores will bring the total number of Chef'store locations, which serve both consumers and culinary professionals, to 87.
Walmart has announced a new fee for suppliers who ship goods to its stores and warehouses through its in-house service. The fuel surcharge and collect pickup charge is being put in place in response to rising transportation and fuel costs.
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The expenses associated with a new transportation management system "depend on the integrator's fees, how long the implementation takes, and the number of consultants involved," writes Steve Banker, vice president of supply chain management at ARC Advisory Group. Industry experts say implementations can take between three and 12 months, and cloud-based systems aren't necessarily any faster.
The ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland in California, along with ones in Savannah, Ga., and New York, have the highest detention and demurrage fees charged by container shippers, according to a Container xChange report. The ports' fees were two to three times as much as ones in Hong Kong and 20 times as much as in Busan, South Korea, and Dalian, China.
Business-to-business marketers are wrong to keep chasing scale and should prioritize a deeper understanding of the decision-makers within the largest accounts, explains Carbon Design founder and CEO Scott Gillum. "Knowing a buyer's motivations and behaviors by understanding their personality type is the key to understanding how to get them to act," Gillum writes.
Sales leaders, like air traffic controllers, must juggle many responsibilities at once while making "high-impact decisions based on their personal assessment of all that information," writes David Mattson, president and CEO of Sandler. The best leaders are those who are experts in their sales process and provide optimal time for sales teams to do their jobs without drama or unnecessary interruptions, Mattson writes.
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Intuition can help guide leaders in both business and medicine in cases where their knowledge and expertise can lead them to solutions that reason alone might miss, writes John Baldoni. However, retired physician David Fessell says leaders must know their limits and be "prepared to be wrong so that you, and others, don't get hurt."
Being aware of situations that trigger defensiveness and giving yourself a bit of time can help you identify and avoid negative behavior patterns and become a better leader, writes Lolly Daskal. "Remind yourself often that you can't control anybody else's actions or responses -- but you can control your own," Daskal writes.
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