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Navigating the Impact of Temperature and Pressure on Air Cargo Shipping

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In the fast-paced world of global commerce, the efficient transportation of goods is crucial. Among the various modes of transportation, air cargo stands out for its speed and reliability. However, ensuring the safe delivery of products via air freight involves navigating a myriad of challenges, with temperature and pressure being two critical factors that can significantly impact the integrity of shipped goods.

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The Financial Options for Growing Your Business

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Growing your business takes careful planning. If you’re like many small and medium-sized businesses, allocating financial resources to cover set expenses, investments and finance growth strategies is where creativity and resourcefulness are needed.

It’s likely you have a list of growth initiatives that you believe will carry you to the next level. Top growth-focused projects for businesses at this stage include:

  • Expanding product lines
  • Increasing marketing efforts
  • Onboarding a fulfillment partners to support growing demand
  • Hiring additional personnel to meet changing business needs.

Identifying the right resources to fuel your expansion can ensure you get and stay on a growth trajectory. But how do you do this? Continue reading “The Financial Options for Growing Your Business” →

Cutting New Product Costs By Up to 80% with GCE

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The Great Benefits of Adopting a Global Concurrent Engineering (GCE) Model

Conceptualized in the 1900’s and grown during WWII, concurrent engineering (CE) has been the most competitive operation model used by some leading industries. Since the 1980’s, the semiconductor industry has been using CE to achieve superb speed to market for both IC chips and equipment manufacturing. However, due to restrictions in both resources and operational capabilities, only a few of business in other industries are able to practice this model. From design to manufacturing has always been a major challenge – implementing this at a global scale only exacerbates the situation. With 20 years of development experience and successes, E-BI can help clients to ramp up their Global Concurrent Engineering (GCE) workflow seamlessly using its artificial intelligence based global supply chain management system (GSCM), cross-functional specialty engineering teams and Star Factory Alliance. The GCE model will not only shorten your time on proving a new product’s manufacturability during the NPI stage, but also achieve the fastest speed to market.
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How to Ship Dangerous Goods

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Please note the following text is meant to be for informational purposes only and not for legal advice.

Shipping dangerous goods around the globe can be an arduous task. It is a complex and highly regulated process. There are many transport regulations that shippers must stay current with in order to have the proper knowledge to remain compliant, stay safe, and avoid penalties.

WHAT IS A DANGEROUS GOOD?

Dangerous goods (DG) are any substance or article than can harm a person, property, or environment during transport. Whether a product is considered a dangerous good depends on various factors such as flammability, concentration of the substance, or whether it is shipped via ocean or air. It is the shipper’s responsibility to determine if their goods meet the requirements to be classified as dangerous goods, depending on their mode of transport. It is important to remember to look for “hidden” dangerous goods—items that may just be a small part of a product. Any time you ship something that could be a DG (liquids, powders, creams, gels, batteries, etc.), it is important to still report it. Carriers and forwarders want proof this material was noted and is actually non DG, rather than not being noted at all.
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What It Takes to Get an Accurate Manufacturing Quote

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Low price has always been the number one goal for a buyer. Quality has been a fear factor behind failure of a so called lowest price. The service level, such as response speed to an urgent demand or change, is usually ignored at the time of negotiation. While a decision maker understands that his/her business success depends on the optimization of these three factors, many decision makers fail to achieve the right optimization of the complex decision making process of choosing the right partner. An accurate price manufacturing quote should be sustainable for your type of industry and business model that can position your product as the leader of your competitive area, when an operating situation changes with time.

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10 Factors to Consider in a Cost Reduction Strategy

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Design-to-cost (DTC) is one of the most common strategies for cost reduction during product development and manufacturing. Cost is an important parameter to consider in even the earliest designs of a product. It is easier to design costs “into” a product, rather than remove them later. By making the right decisions in a design or concept early on, extra unnecessary costs that may be incurred by a design change later on can be avoided.

The concept of DTC extends beyond just design, to product specifications and the complete development cycle. DTC addresses costs including those labeled as recurring production costs, non-recurring costs, product costs, and product price or acquisition costs. For example, any environmental factors, expected maintenance that will be needed, or any other part of the process will be taken into account. However, DTC does not necessarily mean a product will automatically reach a defined target cost. It simply is about considering cost as a design parameter during product development.

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