Feature Stories
Supply Chain Velocity: Shifting Into Overdrive
When expediting shipments, visibility, communication, and customer service get into gear.
Transport Funding: Who Gets the Big Piece of Pie?
The U.S. Department of Transportation's second round of stimulus funding for infrastructure development exposes a widening gap between U.S. roads, rails, and bridges and government special interests.
CSCMP Annual Conference: Can We Talk?
Wherever you went, attendees at the 2010 CSCMP Annual Conference were talking supply chain risk, volatility, disruption, and visibility.
Case Studies
Casebook
Logistics Outsourcing: An Active Culture at Dannon
Dannon's network design provides flexibility and speed to serve customers quickly, reduces transport time and costs, and delivers on the company's sustainability initiatives, while ensuring product freshness.
Reader Profile
Todd Stewart: All Wired Up
As vice president of supply chain at WireCo WorldGroup, Todd Stewart looks for cost reductions while improving service and delivery to customers.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Cutting Costs From Your Logistics Budget
Nathan Pieri of Management Dynamics provides tips for reducing logistics costs through improved supply chain management.
Global
Fighting Piracy on the High Seas
Coronating Emirates’ Logistics Corridor
Sponsored
H.O.W.
How to Select Expedited Services
Shippers must consider multiple factors when they work with service providers to move expedited freight.
H.O.W.
How to Drive Collaborative Distribution
Collaborative distribution lets manufacturers, especially consumer product goods (CPG) companies, merge loads destined for the same end point to maximize trucking efficiency.
H.O.W.
How to Develop a Direct-to-Store Delivery Model
A Direct-to-Store Delivery (DSD) delivery model helps consumer goods manufacturers gain speed and increase inventory turns.
H.O.W.
How to Find the Best EDI Solution For Your Operations
Electronic data interchange (EDI) technology and infrastructure is adapting to help businesses more quickly and accurately share information within the corporation and across the supply chain.
H.O.W.
How to Enable a Proactive Supply Chain
Transaction and shipment exceptions are common, so businesses must be able to account for these variables by enabling a proactive supply chain.
H.O.W.
How to Leverage Rail/Intermodal For Refrigerated Freight
The emergence of refrigerated container units provides more cost-effective rail and intermodal shipping for perishable and temperature-sensitive goods.
H.O.W.
How to Ship to Alaska
The key to successful shipping in Alaska is to partner with a transportation provider that knows how to manage Alaska’s many obstacles.
H.O.W.
How to Select a Transportation Management Solution
Selecting a new transportation management solution (TMS), whether fully outsourced, hosted, or internally installed, requires much due diligence to pair functional need with strategic vision.
H.O.W.
How to Ship Air Freight in Alaska
Moving cargo by air in Alaska requires expertise in transportation and logistics management.
Knowledge Base
Gaining Alignment With Your 3PL is Key to Supply Chain Success
Duane Sizemore of Total Logistic Control discusses how companies can build better relationships with third-party logistics providers through measurement, monitoring, and rewards.
Digital Editions
3PL LineCharlie Jacobs
Lean: The Next Best Thing to ‘Clip-and-Save’
Charlie Jacobs of APL Logistics explains the cost savings and efficiency benefits of implementing lean practices, as demonstrated by three warehousing case studies.
Checking InKeith Biondo
Elephants Chasing TIGERs
The latest round of Department of Transportation TIGER grants continues the spending bias for passenger and other non-freight initiatives.
EcoDevJeremy Woods, CCIM, SIOR
Tapping Into the Power of Supply Chain Integration
Jeremy Woods of Summit Realty Group explains how an orchestrated strategy to integrate supply chain, energy use, and real estate costs can help save money.
Green LandscapeHillary Femal
Pallet-Sharing Programs: Better for the Planet
For shipping and receiving, there are three types of pallet programs: single-use or one-way, extended-use or buy/sell, and leasing or rental. Hillary Femal of IFCO Systems describes the uses and benefits of each type.