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2009 Logistics Planner (151 pages • 14.6 MB PDF File) The Logistics Planner provides detailed, descriptive profiles of 150 leading carriers, logistics solutions providers, technology companies and equipment manufacturers as well as the best sites in North America supporting trade. Business logistics leaders around the globe use the Digital Edition of the Logistics Planner in PDF format all year long to find solutions to their trade, transportation, logistics and supply chain challenges. |
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Wind Power Logistics: Tilting Toward Wind Turbines (15 pages • 2MB PDF File) Wind energy is global, it's green, it's complex -- and it's capturing the attention and imagination of government, economic development, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics service providers alike. |
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H.O.W. (7 pages • 500 KB PDF File) Need to know the best way to create a lean warehouse? Gain reverse logistics efficiency? Outsource wind power logistics? You've come to the right place. Find out H.O.W. to handle these challenges in our annual compilation of logistics best practices. |
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Great Logistics Sites (9 pages • 2MB PDF File) The building blocks of a great logistics site include prime location, an abundance of industrial facilities, easy access to multiple transportation modes, the right workforce, and tax credits and incentives. Here is a closer look at five regions that offer the right combination to help companies achieve logistics greatness. |
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2009 Ocean Carrier Guide (9 pages • 1MB PDF File) Ocean carriers are awash in change -- realigning routes and service frequencies to better match supply with demand; investing in logistics-driven technologies that capture and share information upstream and downstream in the supply chain; and acquiring bigger, better, and greener ships to pilot greater efficiencies and economies for ocean freight buyers. Inbound Logistics' annual Ocean Carrier Guide offers a quick-scan perspective of how steamship lines are investing in and expanding their services, technologies, and equipment to keep shippers moving forward. |
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Missouri: The Perfect Center (25 pages • 7.2MB PDF File) Need to be within easy reach of just about everything? Missouri is the place to be. The state's transportation infrastructure provides a wealth of options for connecting efficiently with the rest of the country and the world. |
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Top 100 Motor Carriers (10 pages • 225KB PDF File) Spotting best-of-breed trucking parnters that can meet your unique challenges and take your business down new roads of innovation and efficiency requires a great deal of due diligence. Want a shortcut? The Top 100 Motor Carriers directory helps put your cargo in the right hands and your company in the driver's seat. |
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WMS Buyer's Guide 2009 (5 pages • 168KB PDF File) To provide some guidance in selecting the perfect Warehouse Management System, Inbound Logistics canvassed leading vendors to aggregate a directory of WMS solutions and capabilities. |
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Freight Payment Services: Boosting Invoice IQ (11 pages • 2.1MB PDF File) Here's a look at how freight payment/audit providers scrutinize shipper invoices using detailed reporting, sophisticated technology, and international capabilities designed to help shippers make bright business decisions. |
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INSIDE INFO: 10+2 Solutions (2 pages • 160 KB PDF File) For many shippers, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Importer Security Filing mandate, commonly referred to as 10+2, adds up to nothing less than a whole lot of confusion. This resource of 10+2 experts is a good place to find a partner that can facilitate compliance. |
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Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor: North America's Energy and Agricultural Heartland (12 pages • 881 K PDF File) Linking North America's top energy and agricultural regions, the Ports-to-Plains Corridor helps deliver food and fuel to the city, and keeps the Heartland economy humming. |
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2009 Forklift Buyer's Guide (5 pages • 1.8 MB PDF File) Inbound Logistics' annual Forklift Buyer's Guide can help you add some muscle to your warehouse and distribution operations with the leanest, meanest lift trucks on the market. The manufacturers featured in this special supplement offer the safest, best engineered, most ergonomic, efficient, reliable forklifts available. |
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Inbound Logistics' 25Green Supply Chain Partners (7 pages • 881K PDF File) Inbound Logistics' inaugural 25 Green Supply Chain Partners (G25) highlights companies that arent' just creating carbon-less footprints, they're leaving a deep and indelible impression on industry and consumers alike. This list is by no means comprehensive, but there is no arguing the qualifications of these green leaders. |
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Readers' Choice: Top 10 3PL Excellence Awards (7 pages • 1.8 MB PDF File) Which 3PLs do the best job handling your logistics needs? We asked and readers responded, with more than 6,000 votes. See which 3PLs readers single out as market leaders. |
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3PL Perspectives (10 pages • 900 KB PDF File) Inbound Logistics offers exclusive research on the third-party logistics segment. The 3PL Market Insight Survey analyzes empirical data to identify market drivers shaping global outsourcing trends. |
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Top 100 3PL Providers (10 pages • 631 KB PDF File) Here are 100 3PLs that offer the diverse operational capabilities and experience to meet readers' needs. A full capabilities chart provides all the information you need to find a 3PL that best meets your logistics outsourcing challenges. |
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Northwest Iowa: Connectivity Beyond Expectations (8 pages • 1.4 MB PDF File) At the core of America'a heartland, Northwest Iowa delivers easy access to major markets, a first-class transportation infrastructure, a welcoming business environment, and outstanding workforce development programs. |
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Best Practices Playbook (4 pages • 517 KB PDF File) Whether you're adding a new 3PL player to your team, or improving your transit time to goal, our guide will coach you on game-winning logistics moves. |
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Chemical Logistics (15 pages • 5.7 MB PDF File) How are chemical shippers and carriers handling the economic crisis? What's the latest news in chemical logistics training and regulations? Find out in this informative resource from Inbound Logistics and Chemical Week. |
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Airfreight Forwarders Perspectives and Who's Who Directory (8 pages • 1.8 MB PDF File) Leading air cargo companies share their perceptions on important trends shaping the trajectory of today's global supply chain. To get your search for an airfreight service provider off the ground, check out this list of leading players. |
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Smart Strategy: South Of The Border (9 pages • 1.2 MB PDF File) Companies that source and manufacture products in Mexico gain opportunities to cut transportation costs, hold less inventory, and provide faster service to customers. But to reap logistics benefits in Mexico, you have to know your way around. |
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TMS Buyers Guide 2009 (5 pages • 295K PDF File) From on-demand Web-hosted applications to traditional licensing installations, over the road, on the rail, containerized, or parcel, TMS vendors and service providers are expanding their offerings to target specific end-user requirements. Because the choices can be overwhelming, Inbound Logistics offers this TMS Buyers Guide to some leading providers and solutions that can put you on the right road toward improved transportation management and performance. |
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Divide and Conquer: A Guide to Sortation Systems (3 pages • 875K PDF File) An automated conveyor that diverts items to the correct spot could be the tool your warehouse needs for efficient, cost-effective materials handling. Download this guide to sort through a variety of sortation systems on offer from some of the industry's leading materials handling companies. |
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Logistics Hotspots 2009 (10 pages • 5.1MB PDF File) Whether a company's needs dictate a distribution location that is large or small, coastal or heartland, urban or rural, it is likely to find its match among the 15 cities Inbound Logistics selected as logistics hotspots for 2009. Here is a look at what makes these locations desirable, even when the economic climate is not. |
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INSIDE INFO: Green Packaging Solutions (1 pages • 156K PDF File) These days it seems like the whole world is going green. Major retailers such as Target and Walmart are demanding sustainable packaging from their suppliers, and consumers are shifting their preferences toward eco-friendly products and green packaging solutions. If it's time for your company tobegin investigating greener packaging options, you'll find this list of leading vendors a good place to start. |
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Arkansas: A Natural Wonder (5 pages • 1.5MB PDF File) Home to the foremost consumer goods retailer in the world, two leading motor freight carriers, the largest U.S. river system, a major east-west highway, and the country's largest rice crop, opportunities abound in Arkansas. See why the state has fast become the perfect match for transportation- and distribution- minded businesses. |
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Top 100 Logistics IT Companies (10 pages • 408K PDF File) IL editors winnowed this year's crop of technology providers from more than 300 applicants, using questionnaires, online research, and interviews to validate our picks. The Top 100 Logistics IT Companies presents a drill-down focus of the technology partners that can help your enterprise reach its current and future goals. |
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IT Perspectives (6 pages • 1.1 MB PDF File) Inbound Logistics solicited input from a diverse pool of 300 technology providers to gain perspective on the current logistics IT market. Statistical data, emerging trends, and anecdotal observations will shed new light on your technology investments and applications. |
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Bar-Code Printer Guide (5 pages • 697K PDF File) Here's a roundup of some top bar-code printer models from the leading manufacturers in specialty printing solutions. Whether you're looking for a high-volume workhorse, a compact desktop model, or a high-tech wireless wiz, you'll find it here. |
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Global Logistics Guides 2009 (9 pages • 4.3 MB PDF File) Inbound Logistics' 5th Annual Global Logistics Guide presents a navigational beacon as you scope out and steer your company's global reckoning through an uncertain economic abyss. |
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Inside Info: Load Optimization and Yard Management Software (3 pages • 180K PDF File) In its first installment, our guide to leading logistics resources showcases load optimization tools that help you squeeze every ounce of efficiency from your assets, and yard management solutions that track trailers and their contents. |
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PORTFOLIO: New Ports of Call (3 pages • 313K PDF File) Commercial ports are the heart of global supply chains, vital to the ebb and flow of world trade. Join IL as we drop anchor at two up-and-coming ro/ro cargo hubs. |
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2009 Truck Equipment Guide: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (6 pages • 1.7 MB PDF File) Inbound Logistics goes bumper to bumper with some of the latest commercial tractors to hit the road. |
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H.O.W. Help Is On The Way (15 pages • 2.4 MB PDF File) Need to know the best way to manage risk? Negotiate contracts? Standardize fuel surcharges? Gain visibility? Develop infrastructure? You've come to the right place. Find out H.O.W. to handle these questions and more in our annual library of logistics best practices. |
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NASCO: North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (13 pages • 1.8 MB PDF File) The multimodal transportation network known as NASCO runs through the heart of trade in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Find out what makes this corridor unique and why companies are banding together to support it. |
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Memphis: North America's Logistics Center (16 pages • 2.6 MB PDF File) With its central location, highly developed infrastructure, growing economy, and depth of logistics and transportation services, Memphis is positioned to claim its right to the title "North America's Logistics Center." When it comes to site selection, Memphis definitely has it all. So why consider bringing your business anywhere else? |
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Great Logistics Sites: Pursuit of Excellence (9 pages • 1.69 MB PDF File) Here's a closeup look at five locations across the United States that are building a foundation for transportation and logistics greatness. |
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Exclusive Research: Trucking Perspectives 2008 (5 pages • 1.2 MB PDF File) The annual Motor Freight Market Insight Survey provides an in-depth look at the trucking sector. Motor carriers and Inbound Logistics readers address growth areas and obstacles. |
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Top 100 Motor Carriers (10 pages • 647K MB PDF File) Shift gears, slow down, and take account of 100 motor freight carriers paving the road to innovation and change within the trucking industry. |
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Freight Payment Services: Dollars and Sense (8 pages • 1.4 MB PDF File) Freight payment services are no longer just about paying your carriers quickly. Today's freight payment service providers have expanded their portfolios to offer an array of cost-cutting, productivity, and efficiency benefits. |
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Forklift Buyer's Guide 2008 (11 pages • 2.1 MB PDF File) Whether you're looking for electric, gas, or LPG models, deep reach or narrow aisle, side loaders or omni-directional, the manufacturers featured in Inbound Logistics' annual Forklift Buyer's Guide offer the safest, best engineered, most ergonomic, efficient, reliable forklifts available. |
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Reader's Choice: Top 10 3PL Excellence Awards (7 pages • 7.3 MB PDF File) Which 3PLs do the best job handling your logistics needs? We asked and readers responded , with more than 5,100 votes. See which 3PLs readers single out as market leaders. |
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3PL Perspectives (10 pages • 6.3 MB PDF File) Inbound Logistics offers exclusive research on the third-party logistics segment. The 3PL Market Insight Survey analyzes empirical data to identify market drivers shaping global outsourcing trends. |
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Top 100 3PL Providers (10 pages • 10.5 MB PDF File) Here are 100 3PLs that offer the diverse operational capabilities and experience to meet readers' needs. A full capabilities chart provides all the information you need to find a 3PL that best meets your logistics outsourcing challenges. |
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Airfreight Forwarders Perspectives and Who's Who Directory (10 pages • 16 MB PDF File) The results of our Airfreight Forwarding Market Insight Survey provide an up-close look at the industry and how intermediaries are expanding their global coverage and services to meet shipper and corporate expectations. To help get your search for an airfreight forwarder off the ground, this digital edition also contains a list of leading players. |
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Chemical Logistics (17 pages • 2.3 MB PDF File) What is the state of today's chemical logistics market? How are shippers and carriers committing to best practices? Which technology is affecting chemical logistics? Find out in this informative resource from Inbound Logistics and Chemical Week. |
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Latin America Logistics: A New World Venture (11 pages • 1 MB PDF File) Thanks to the pioneering efforts of visionary 3PLs, U.S. companies are prospecting sites in Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere as they explore new sourcing and selling opportunites. |
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Spokane: Hub of the Inland Northwest (7 pages • 857 KB PDF File) Looking for easy access to major U.S. markets? A gateway for international trade free of traffic snarls? Inexpensive utilities and real estate with plenty of room to expand logistics or manufacturing operations? Spokane is just what you're looking for. |
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TMS Buyers Guide 2008 (4 pages • 253 KB PDF File) TMS vendors and service providers are expanding their offerings to pinpoint specific end-user tastes. Inbound Logistics' TMS Buyers Guide serves up an assorted menu of market players and solutions that can help satisfy your enterprise's appetite for dynamic transportation management and performance. |
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Top 100 Logistics IT Companies 2008 (11 pages • 488 KB PDF File) Our annual comparison chart of the top technology companies is now available as a downloadable PDF with live web and e-mail links. In addition to the Top 100 Logistics IT Companies chart, this exclusive download includes "IT Perspectives" -- the results of our Logistics IT Market Insight Survey. |
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2008 Global Logistics Guide (6 pages • 2.8 MB PDF File) Inbound Logistics' fourth annual Global Logistics Guide helps you evaluate potential sourcing locations by identifying global hotspots excelling in transport infrastructure, IT competency, and people power. Sponsored by COSCO. |
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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT: The Avenue of the Saints (8 pages • 931K PDF File) Along the 600 miles of highway known as The Avenue of the Saints, companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in logistics facilities, and reaping the benefits of fast, economical access to major Midwest cities. |
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IL's Wide World of Ports (9 pages • 2.4 MB PDF File) No two ports are alike - each has its own specialty, unique combination of offerings, and history. Inbound Logistics takes a closer look at four global ports that keep goods and materials moving around our shrinking world. |
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The Evolution of Inbound Logistics (33 pages • 2 MB PDF File) From yesterday's legacies to tomorrow's visionaries, the theory and practice of inbound logistics is timeless. Take the journey from Ford and Toyota's legacy, to inbound's early adopters, through to the present and future. |
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WMS Directory: Plug In and Power Up (5 pages • 132 KB PDF File) Whether your demands are vertical-specific, dictated by existing ERP systems, or based on cost and complexity, WMS vendors are saturating the market with a wide array of solutions. Download this directory to find a WMS solution that can recharge your supply chain. |
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Navigating Site Selection (9 pages • 2.1 MB PDF File) A regional guide to U.S. logistics and distribution hotspots |
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Bar-Code/RFID Printers Buyer's Guide (4 pages • 456 KB PDF File) Whether you use them for asset-tracking, inventory management, point-of-sale, or warehouse management applications, bar-code/RFID printers play an important role in your supply chain. To help narrow the choices, we've scanned the market to offer you some of the hottest printers available today. |
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Nebraska: America's New Logistics Center (Special Supplement) (15 pages • 2.1 MB PDF File) Strategically positioned in the center of the country, with a business-friendly climate and well-educated work force, Nebraska offers an ideal location for transportation, logistics, distribution, and warehousing companies. The state's reputation as a manufacturing and distribution growth center continues to attract big business. |
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Back to School? Start Your Search Here (10 pages • 588K PDF File) Succeeding in the logistics field often requires an advanced degree. But finding the right school to attend sometimes comes with an advanced degree of aggravation. Inbound Logistics is here to help. This guide will help you learn more about 25 schools offering a variety of logistics education programs for MBA-seekers, professionals, and distance learners alike. Download |
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I-39 Corridor: Gateway to the Midwest (23 pages • 4.4 MB PDF File) Smack dab in the middle of the country, the I-39 Logistics Corridor serves as a gateway to America's Midwest, and beyond. Its congestion-free location; affordable workforce; and access to major multimodal transport links help drive the region's thriving global trade. Download this special supplement to see why so many companies call the Corridor home |
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