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Amphire: 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.
Read MoreBob Wegmann: Blood Work
As Americans jammed Red Cross blood centers after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bob Wegmann and his staff worked the phones. Their mission: to get vendors to rush enough blood bags, swabs, printed forms, and other supplies to accommodate the hordes of donors. “Obviously, no one predicted Sept. 11. But we were able to predict, […]
Read MoreNTE Builds Toshiba’s Public-Private Partnership
Two electronic trading networks help Toshiba win prime-level service and attractive rates from contract carriers.
Read MoreBridging Infrastructure Gaps In Latin America
By partnering with a 3PL, Lucent moves inventory closer to its end consumers, reduces inventory-carrying costs, and better manages product flow.
Read MoreMichael Trotter: Striking a Balance
Loading pallets with electrical supplies bound for factories and construction sites, “you learn quickly that you can’t set light bulbs on the bottom and put wire on the top,” laughs Michael Trotter, director of logistics at Van Meter Industrial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. But for a distributor with 29,000 SKUs of all sizes and shapes—from […]
Read MoreServigistics Service Parts Planning: More Science, Less Art
Cray Inc. takes the guesstimation out of managing its stock of spare parts.
Read MoreA Ripe Market for Automated Routing and Scheduling
With promises of fresher and more timely delivery of perishable produce, here’s how an australian etailer is changing the way today’s consumers shop.
Read MoreAndrea Greco: Greco’s Game
The biggest logistics challenge I have right now is being able to go fishing on the weekends and still spend time with my kids,” laughs Andrea Greco, vice president, supply chain for Fila USA. Shuttling between a job near Baltimore and a young family in New York demands careful organization. So does coordinating the supply […]
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