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Choreographing the New Supply Chain
Connecting customers, distributors, manufacturers and suppliers to allow real-time workflow requires they all dance to the same music.
Read MoreDelivering the Goods: The Art of Managing Your Supply Chain
Master the recipe and you achieve efficiencies and savings. Becoming a better global competitor is just the icing on the cake.
Read MoreSlow-Moving Inventory: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Some companies that think they do a good job speeding inventory have it only half right. Many focus only on fast-moving items, ignoring the savings potential of managing slow-movers. Here’s how to tap this new opportunity.
Read MoreThis Just Out: The Latest in Logistics I.T.
Heavy freight, “lite” logistics and global customs clearance procedures drive three new supply chain applications.
Read MoreLogistics I.T.—5×5
Five solutions providers answer five questions about new logistics IT buying trends.
Read MoreAir Cargo: Business As Usual
Unfazed. Surviving a tumultuous two-year stretch marked by security and regulatory demands, rising shipper expectations, and internal profitability pressures, air carriers show resolve and resiliency. Here’s a look at how airlines, forwarders, and integrators prove that, despite the challenges, it’s just business as usual.
Read MoreSuper-Charging Your Supply Chain
Companies use different options to fight the never-ending battle of optimizing their supply chains.
Read MoreWinning Supply Chain Strategies: Adversity Breeds Creativity
While a slow economy drives many companies to wait out the siege, others do everything but. These winning companies look to the future, building supply chains based on creativity, velocity, collaboration, and speed. Here are their strategies for success.
Read MoreManaging Your Spend
New strategies, reengineering, and powerful technology enable companies to revamp sourcing and procurement.
Read MoreLogistics 101: Back to Basics
Logistics can confound the newly initiated and veterans alike. So take out your notebook, sharpen your pencil, and take this Inbound Logistics short course on the fundamental concepts driving logistics theory and practice today.
Read MoreRouting Guides: Inside the Matrix
Successful implementation of a routing guide feeds off constant communication among vendors, carriers, and consignees. Find out how you can help foster better shipping compliance among your supply chain partners with a dynamic routing guide.
Read MoreTurning Invoices Into Intelligence
Don’t let bankruptcies in the freight payment industry overshadow the potential power of turning freight invoices into actionable information.
Read MoreSourcing Globally Now That The Rules Have Changed
MORE TO THE STORY: The e-Procurement Advantage During the 1980s and 1990s, manufacturers saved billions of dollars in inventory and other carrying costs by instituting effective just-in-time (JIT) supply chain management and production processes. These efforts were based on the fundamental assumption that, while global supply chains might experience short-term hiccups, they would run pretty […]
Read MoreLooking Inside The Box
As budget limitations and executive missives compel logistics managers to streamline operating expenses, web-based procurement solutions have become one obvious fix, offering greater control over purchasing decisions, the opportunity to consolidate supply orders and shipments, and the promise of reduced costs.
Read MoreThe Supply Chain: A Canary in the Corporate Coal Mine
To avoid the fate of companies that collaborated with WorldCom, Enron, Vivendi and others, you must learn to read supply chain performance as a gauge of corporate financial fitness. SCM performance is a leading—not a lagging—indicator of a suppy chain partner’s true economic situation.
Read MoreBecoming a Better Trucking Customer
Put yourself in your motor carriers’ place for a moment. This past year brought more than a few bumps in the road. Union battles, driver shortages, rising insurance premiums, fluctuating fuel prices and surcharges, and increased safety and security costs have deflated profits and forced shippers, carriers, and supply chain partners to plug expectation gaps […]
Read MoreSlow Economy? Invest Now in Logistics IT
While some companies have frozen investments in logistics and supply chain technology, forward-thinking companies seize the opportunity to gain a competitive edge.
Read MoreShopping for Supply Chain Excellence
Food companies embrace collaboration and supply chain technology in their quest o deliver service, selection and savings.
Read MoreEurope’s Evolving Logistics Landscape
The advent of the European Union is dramatically changing logistics and supply chain management in the Old World.
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