Feature Stories
Supply Chain Education: Ask The Professors
Leading supply chain and logistics professors provide insights about the state of supply chain education and employers' expectations for new hires.
Wes Kemp: Portrait of a Leader
Recently retired from a 40-year career with less-than-truckload carrier ABF, former president and CEO Wes Kemp shares his insights on the transportation industry, trucking regulation, and the importance of logistics and supply chain education.
Project Logistics: Moving the Big, the Heavy, and the Wide
Project cargo logistics requires shippers and service providers become more sophisticated in how they plan and partner for success when transporting oversized and heavy-weight shipments.
Case Studies
Reader Profile
Don Riley: Building for the Future
Don Riley, executive vice president of supply chain and technology at Denver, Colo.-based building materials supplier ProBuild Holdings, faces recessionary challenges by building the right organizational model and relationships – from suppliers to customers – to support the company today and into the future.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Improving the Order-to-Cash Cycle
Improving order-to-cash cycle effectiveness requires more than speeding receivables. Scott Pezza, research analyst, The Aberdeen Group, offers advice for enhancing the overall process by focusing on long-term goals and relationships with customers.
Trends
BNSF Lays Down Investment Plan
3PL Partnerships: One for All or All for One?
Global
UK University Engine Behind Carbon Tool
China Tries New Recipe for Safer, Smarter Food Chain
Panalpina Creates Regional Triumvirate
Sponsored
Knowledge Base
Software as a Service: Changing the TMS Landscape
With a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) transportation management system (TMS), shippers are quickly taking control of their network of carriers, customers, and vendors, writes Eric Rempel, 3PLogic.
Digital Editions
3PL LineTod Yazdi
Dealing With Daily-Deal Sites
New e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial can bring huge sales volume in a very short period of time by reaching a targeted audience with appealing offers. Tod Yazdi of TAGGlogistics explains how shippers can work with fulfillment partners to make the most of this new opportunity.
Checking InKeith Biondo
The Fifth P of Marketing
People are a vital component of marketing - the fifth P - supporting products and companies with advanced logistics and supply chain management skills, writes Inbound Logistics Publisher Keith Biondo.
IT MattersRobert F. Byrne
Use Transportation Planning for Competitive Advantage
Logistics can now be aligned with supply chain and manufacturing through solutions that create daily transportation need forecasts by lane/mode/carrier. Robert F. Byrne of Terra Technology outlines the benefits.
ViewpointElisha Tropper
The Truth Behind “Made in the USA”
The time is right to bring overseas manufacturing back to the United States. U.S. entrepreneurs - and entrepreneurial companies - can domestically manufacture quality products, bring them to market as the low-cost producers, and yield a sustainable profitable business model, writes Elisha Tropper of Cambridge Security Seals.