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Wheels of Fortune: Truckers Deliver a Wealth of Services
Motor carriers help companies optimize their core competencies by providing value-added services.
Read MoreMilitary Logistics Shapes Up
As the need for efficiency in military operations grows, streamlining the supply chain becomes imperative.
Read MoreFast Food: SCM Feeds the Need
Whether by increasing inventory turns or compressing order cycle time, food companies are looking for ways to reach maximum speed.
Read MoreRetail Roundup: The End of the Supply Chain
It’s all about what happens at the cash register. So how do retailers and their partners efficiently match demand to supply with good customer service, and still ring up profits? Eleven industry observers offer their perspective on what retailers can do to survive and prosper.
Read MoreDon’t Even Think About Outsourcing Until You Read These Success Stories
From Fortune 50 organizations to startup operations, a growing number of companies are outsourcing components of their logistics and supply chain functions to third-party logistics providers. Take the New England operation of Greenleaf Automotive Recyclers, a distributor of recycled auto parts. Last year the company decided to outsource its local customer deliveries to improve operations […]
Read MoreWhat Does Your 3PL Really Think?
Third-party logistics providers struggle with customer demands to continuously create value. So, how are they doing? Inbound Logistics took this question to a group of 3PL providers to find out how they validate their value proposition in today’s environment, and how they plan to serve you looking forward. Follow us as we pan the 3PL industry and zoom in on some emerging trends.
Read MoreCareer Moves: Does Outsourcing Help or Hurt?
The right outsourcing recommendation can make or break your career. Here’s some advice for using outsourcing to fuel your trip up the corporate ladder.
Read MoreGoing Modal
How is a logistics airport alleviating congestion at Los Angeles ports? By operating as a multi-modal 3PL. Facing the unenviable task of cutting time and costs during transshipment at ports, forwarders, 3PLs, and shippers are looking to inland multi-modal facilities such as Southern California Logistics Airport to circumvent congestion and ensure quicker turnaround times for their customers’ shipments.
Read MoreFare’s Fair: Making Air Cargo Count
The traditional mold that combination carriers have operated in is crumbling as increased competition from low-fare carriers impacts the way they serve cargo customers. Putting back the pieces will require a more concerted effort, focusing attention and resources on the cargo side and making product attractive to shippers and consignees—regardless of how passenger volume waxes and wanes.
Read MoreAt Long Last, Logistics Reaches the Boardroom
The CEOs of two vastly different companies—The Container Store and Leiner Health Products—share their views on the importance of logistics and supply chain management to their companies’ bottom lines.
Read MoreWarehousing: The Evolution Continues
As the evolution of warehousing continues, logistics professionals will have plenty of opportunity to show just what kind of contribution they can make.
Read MoreMaterial Handling Technology: Beyond the Nuts and Bolts
Today’s material handling technology is a lot more than nuts and bolts. By enabling companies to handle products more swiftly, material handling gives companies the ability to meet increasing customer requirements, boost productivity, and cut costs. Here’s a look at the technological tools that are available today, and how companies are using them in their distribution centers.
Read MoreOptimizing Your Supply Chain: A Model Approach
A wide array of technological tools are just the do-it-yourself kit companies can use to model, then optimize, their supply chains.
Read MoreWireless Supply Chains: No Strings Attached
On the road, in the warehouse or the office, today’s wireless technologies help streamline supply chain operations.
Read MoreGlobal Logistics: Bridging the Cultural Divide
Companies move to ensure operational excellence when working across the cultural divide.
Read MoreNew Product Launches: The Cache to Cash Cycle
Aligning marketing, advertising, and sales initiatives with logistics and fulfillment processes to ensure that new products make their way onto store shelves and into shopping carts demands a collaborative and integrated approach among internal departments and supply chain partners.
Read MoreWhat Makes a Logistics Leader?
Great leaders relish and seek responsibility and accountability. They inspire confidence, win the hearts and minds of their team, and bring out their best, whether on the warehouse floor or in the executive wing. The strategies and advice in this article can help get you on the leadership track.
Read MoreSCM & Logistics: What’s the Difference
Are logistics and supply chain management the same thing? How are they alike? How do they differ? IL readers weigh in with their opinion, and Dr. Edward J. Marien tries to make sense of it all.
Read MoreManaging Logistics Change: Doing it Right
Wrapped in a chrysalis of change, business logistics managers are rebuilding internal elements and morphing legacy systems to answer increased customer demands and manage never-ending variables. What emerges is a logistics process that is more agile, able to fly faster and go farther. See how leading companies use change to transorm themselves, with breathtaking results.
Read MoreZero Hour
What happens when disaster strikes and your shipment never makes it? Time stops for a brief moment … then the clock starts ticking and the phones start ringing. What do you do? How should your vendors and carriers respond? Read this gripping fictional account of one carrier dealing with the unexpected. The story may be make-believe, but the consequences are no less real.
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