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Andy Gustafson: Logistics for the Rich and Famous
To keep the rich and famous cruising in style, someone has to overhaul the engines, install the saunas, and replace the teak railings on the world’s largest yachts. Andy Gustafson’s job is to make sure the technicians who repair and refit these luxury vessels have the materials they need—whether that means sandblasting sand, electronic equipment, […]
Read MoreV3 Systems: Scaling Supply Chain Peaks
Seeking a WMS system to help manage expected growth, Mountain Hardwear found a solution tailored to its size and needs.
Read MoreThe Power of GC3
DuPont’s TransOval web portal is primed to take globalization to a whole new sphere, with help from G-Log’s GC3.
Read MoreCarol Carrieri: Life-Support Logistics
Carol Carrieri had a warehouse full of medical supplies. The problem was how to get them into Manhattan. Minutes after she and her staff at McKesson Medical-Surgical’s distribution center in Dayton, N.J., learned of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, they started calling customers in New York to find out what they […]
Read MoreEnterasys: Stock Options
By adjusting inventory levels automatically every day, Enterasys streamlines its service parts depots.
Read MoreGenesco: From the Flintstones to the Jetsons
Genesco’s new paperless, wireless warehouse has doubled output, with a 99.6-percent accuracy rate on shipments.
Read MoreLewis Dibert: Spinning Red Into Gold
Despite an affable disposition, Lewis Dibert spends his days seeing red. As director of logistics for Red Gold Inc., each day from July through October he moves hundreds of truckloads of tomatoes from fields in five states to be packed into cans at three Indiana production plants. The rest of the year, he brings in […]
Read MoreAmphire: Platform for Productivity
Food service distributor MBM Corp. finds a base for building tighter relationships with vendors and offering value-added services to customers.
Read MoreAlex Reizinger: Stretching His Wings
When Sandy Reizinger first went to work for Ryder Supply Chain Solutions three years ago, he had barely a moment to breathe. Reizinger was part of a team managing transportation for Nortel Networks at its “systems house”—a final assembly and distribution center in Montreal. As logistics coordinator, he built 10 to 12 daily trailer loads, […]
Read MoreXporta: The Total Cost of Global Sourcing
Ingersoll-Rand scopes out the full cost of sourcing from different overseas suppliers.
Read MoreIntegration Tool Gets Railroad on the Right Track
To better manage and share information among business partners and customers, Freightliner makes tracks to a web-based collaborative and integrated IT network.
Read MoreThe Proof is in the Picking
Wholesaler rolls out voice-directed order selection in DC after successful pilot.
Read MoreBrittain Ladd: Doing It Right The First Time, Every Time
Success to me,” says Brittain Ladd, “is educating others on the importance of quality and doing the job right the first time, every time.” As a Six Sigma black belt, Ladd has dedicated himself to eliminating variance—making sure his organization adheres to the highest standards in every detail. Ladd is transportation planning manager for Michaels […]
Read MoreUnilever HPC: From Nine Little Boxes to One Lean Machine
Web-based RFI, RFP and powerful analytic tools help Unilever HPC revamp its transport strategy.
Read MoreINSIGHT: Sticking With the Strategy
An in-house supply chain modeling system helps Henkel Consumer Adhesives react quicly to change.
Read MoreBrian Godfrey: An Explosive Career
Work is a blast for Brian Godfrey. As a logistics supervisor for Dyno Nobel North America, Godfrey is in charge of moving truck, railcar, and barge loads of ammonium nitrate (AN), a fertilizer used as an explosive in mining and construction. He negotiates transportation contracts, traces rail shipments, and routes his goods from manufacturing plants […]
Read MoreWeb Portal Builds Concrete Relationships
Striving to stay competitive despite lower operational costs, St. Lawrence Cement Company turns to a web portal to facilitate order processing and delivery.
Read MoreWarehousing for the 21st Century
Companies explore merge-in-transit, crossdocking, and pool distribution in the never-ending quest to increase speed to market, improve service and inventory turns, and reduce costs.
Read MoreKaren Caswelch: Quality In High Gear
When Karen Caswelch joined Allison Transmission as director of purchasing last year, she had no corporate purchasing experience. But her record in operations and quality management made her supremely qualified to carry out her number-one mission. “The ultimate mandate,” Caswelch says, “is to keep the plants running. And you’ve got to keep them running with […]
Read MoreAdding a Dash of SALT to Logistics
Speech technology developers cook up a new recipe for web applications.
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