Preparing for Retail Peak Season with Technology, People & Capacity
Every Q4, consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail shippers experience a huge surge in volume as they stock up for holiday spending.
With the rapid rise of ecommerce due to effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, this holiday season will be no different. In fact, many CPG shippers have been operating in peak-like conditions since March.
Whether your busy season is Q4, or you just want to prepare for your next shipping surge, you need to prepare to handle spikes and volatility.
In this webinar, peak season experts will discuss how you can leverage people, technology, and unique capacity solutions to win this peak season (whether you’re a shipper or a carrier).
Presenters:
Shawn McCloud, VP of Operations (Coyote Logistics)
Will Chu, Co-Founder & CEO (Vector)
Nick Lewis, SVP of Federal Legislative Affairs (UPS)
In this session, you’ll learn:
- How Peak Retail Season impacts North American supply chains
- COVID-19 impact on Peak Season
- Capacity strategies to prepare your business for surge shipping
- Technology you can use to mitigate COVID-19 disruption in shipping operations
- How carriers can take advantage of Peak Season freight
This session is brought to you by the Coyote Collective: a forum that brings together supply chain experts from around the world to collaboratively solve the most complex industry challenges. This new industry forum will help facilitate innovation, pilot advanced programs and deliver a wide variety of resources, including: webinars, executive insights, original research studies, industry analyses and other thought leadership content. For more information about the Coyote Collective launch, visit resources.coyote.com/source/digital-summit-coyote-collective-launch.