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Freight Payment Services: Dollars & Sense
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.
Read MorePurchasing Managers: Shop Talk
Purchasing managers juggle a To-Do list of stressful, business-critical tasks—from striking the best deals to projecting demand to staying abreast of financial and political changes worldwide. Listen in as four purchasing managers chat about challenges and shoot the breeze on strategy.
Read MoreRetail Logistics: Open for Renovation
Retailers are deploying a number of survival strategies and tactics to cope with the U.S. economic downturn.
Read MoreFast Food Logistics: Having it Your Way
Variety and freshness are paramount to keeping fast-food customers hungry for more and supply lines and inventory ripe and ready for change. Fast-food chains look to logistics service providers with a similar craving for made-to-order selectivity, quality, and service—all at an affordable cost.
Read MoreSnapshot–Food Logistics: A Lineup of Challenges
With safety and recalls, sustainability, rising costs, and infrastructure improvements the usual suspects, food companies investigate strategies for locking down supply chain management efficiencies.
Read More3PL Elements: Outsourcing = A Formula for Change
When shippers mix the 3PL elements of expertise, process efficiency, and technology into their supply chain, the results are potent. Eureka! A stronger, more efficient, and cost-effective logistics operation! Step into the logistics lab for a look at how and why outsourcing can give businesses a positive charge.
Read MoreFrom the Back Room to the Boardroom: Logistics Gets on the Agenda
Supply chain management is no longer a backroom function. It has secured its place at the boardroom table, and greatly impacts corporate success.
Read MoreProject Logistics: Mission Possible
Their mission, should they decide to accept it, is to transport sensitive materials around the globe. They’ll grapple with issues of size, time, cost, scheduling, security, and fragility. Failure is not an option. They are project logistics professionals.
Read MoreGreen Packaging: Waste Not, Want Not
By moving beyond conventional packaging methods and materials, companies can reduce their carbon footprints as well as their transportation spend and warehousing costs.
Read MoreSnapshot: Sewing Up the Apparel Supply Chain
Weak supplier relationships, restrictive trade regulations, and brand counterfeiting can put a wrinkle in garment transport. How do apparel shippers keep from getting tied up in knots.
Read MoreFresh Water Rising: Charting Great Lakes Shipping
A once-flourishing means of transportation is poised to not only withstand change, but also thrive on it.
Read MoreSummer Reading Guide 2008
After you pack the picnic basket with sandwiches, potato salad, and lemonade, toss in one of these interesting summer reads. You’ll quench your appetite and your thirst for supply chain knowledge at the same time.
Read MoreAirfreight Logistics: Plane and Simple Strategies
Although high fuel costs cloud the view, airfreight forwarders still play a vital role in transportation and supply chain strategies.
Read MoreIL Exclusive Research:2008 Airfreight Forwarders Perspectives
In a recent survey, Inbound Logistics asked airfreight forwarders how they are expanding their global coverage and services to meet shipper and corporate expectations. Listen in as they air their thoughts.
Read MoreLearning for Life
Logistics professionals who pursue continuing education keep up with industry innovations and move ahead in their careers.
Read MoreLatin American Logistics: A New World Venture
To distribute its quality writing instruments in Mexico, Pilot Corporation of America relies on its 3PL not just for storage and transportation, but also a competitive edge.
Read MoreWarehouse Labor Performance: And the Winner is…Everyone
Looking for award-winning performance incentives for your warehouse workforce? The nominees are: Measuring Productivity Setting Labor Standards Implementing Gainsharing Programs Training Workers for Results Promoting Safe Practices
Read MoreGetting Lean and Going Green: Innovations in Warehouse Operations
When warehouses and DCs explore innovative ways to optimize flow and reduce waste, the benefits can be bottom-line friendly and eco-friendly, too.
Read MoreU.S. Economic Development: The Great Divide
When it comes to economic development, there are two Americas — communities that invest in transportation infrastructure and those that don’t. Here are three that do.
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