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Nearshoring Latin America: A Closer Look
Do the advantages of locating production near the point of consumption outweigh the region’s drawbacks?
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Jumping Through Hoops: The Importance of Vendor Compliance
Companies execute acrobatic leaps to ensure they satisfy customer shipping specifications. For small businesses, meeting supplier requirements calls for extra agility.
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Ocean Freight Carriers Weather Rough Seas
Capacity gains in ocean container shipping continue to outpace demand. Here’s how shippers, carriers, and intermediaries ride out market volatility and uncertainty.
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Supply Chain Education: Ask The Professors
Show of hands: who has questions about supply chain education and pursuing a career in the field? Leading professors are here with the answers.
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Wes Kemp: Portrait of a Leader
Wes Kemp recently retired after a 42-year career with LTL carrier ABF, where he rose from management trainee to lead the company as president and CEO. In this exclusive interview, Kemp shares his insights on the transportation industry, trucking regulation, technology, and his new role teaching the next generation of logistics leaders.
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Project Logistics: Moving the Big, the Heavy, and the Wide
Project cargo logistics has always been a gritty aspect of the supply chain. But increasingly, shippers and service providers are becoming more sophisticated in how they plan and partner for success when transporting oversized and heavyweight shipments.
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Integration: The Dawning of a New Era
When baseball cap maker New Era’s business growth hit critical mass, it realigned its distribution operations, fusing Menlo Worldwide Logistics’ outsourced solutions with its global supply chain.
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Integration: Making e-Fulfillment a Pet Project
Start-up PetFlow.com had a solid business strategy, but integrating back-end logistics and fulfillment operations proved a challenge—until it implemented a warehouse management system.
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Integration: United They Stand for Corporate Responsibility
Grocery store chain United Supermarkets achieved its sustainability goals by certifying chain of custody within a tight-knit supplier network and integrating responsible practices into daily business operations.
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Integration: Call of the X-duty
The X-duty trailer may look like traditional dry van equipment, but on the inside it’s a different story. Outside-the-box thinking allowed appliance maker Electrolux to connect its inbound and outbound shipment needs in one innovative transport solution.
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