When to lock rates and when to wait it out.
Why this matters
Operations teams keep rediscovering the same lessons. This post lays out the patterns that actually move the needle on ocean freight booking: reading the capacity curve.
The core idea
Throughput, not headcount, is the lever. Measure cycle time at every step and the bottleneck reveals itself.
A practical example
A 12-person prep center in Memphis cut receive-to-putaway from 4 hours to 90 minutes by changing two things — neither of them software.
