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Ocean Spray Teams Up With Uber Freight to Create a Refreshingly Simple Supply Chain
Ocean Spray, a fruit juice, snacks, and sauce retailer, has teamed up with Uber Freight to streamline and improve the transportation of its goods. The company, comprised of more than 700 family-owned farms, decided to partner with the transportation service provider in an effort to stay ahead of industry trends and better serve its customers. […]
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Supply Chain Partner Helps Furniture Maker Get a Leg Up – Evans Distribution
Evans helped furniture maker Floyd develop a real-time supply chain, centralizing its kitting, packaging, and value-added needs, as well as providing transportation.
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HyperX Game Plan: Win at Demand Planning and Replenishment
Kingston Technology Company Inc.’s expertise comes from making and selling memory products. The supply chain model that shaped its success didn’t hold up, however, when its high-performance product division, HyperX, got into the gaming peripherals business.
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No Challenge Too Great – Milestone
Milestone’s mobile warehousing & storage solution enables a manufacturer to create an efficient distribution process with timely deliveries.
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Rooted in Data, Business Blooms
Metrolina Greenhouses integrates ERP and customized, industry-specific tools to improve order, shipping and billing management.
Read MoreItaly’s Ritrama Sticks a Landing in SC
Ritrama, an Italian multinational self-adhesive materials producer, chose Ferretto Group’s technological solutions for its new automated warehouse located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The structure spans an area of more than 5,000 square meters, and is equipped with six stacker cranes with different pick-up tools. Currently in use for about 70 percent of the warehouse, the […]
Read MoreA Sweet deal: Nestlé, XPO Build Digital Warehouse
Nestlé, the world’s largest food and drink company, and XPO Logistics, a global provider of transport and logistics solutions, are co-creating a 638,000-square-foot distribution center at the new SEGRO East Midlands Gateway Logistics Park in Leicestershire, UK. Nestlé will predominantly occupy the facility, a digital warehouse of the future, for its consumer packaged goods. The […]
Read MoreInnovative Partnership Reduces Claims and Decreases Time in Transit for Home Delivery – SEKO Logistics
An electronics store faced with consistent freight forwarding damage claims turned to SEKO Logistics for an unconventional solution.
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Partnering for Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings – Transplace
Transplace helped a frozen pizza business expand its transportation network to increase operational efficiency and maximize financial savings.
Read MoreSolution Generates Cost Savings – Crane Worldwide Logistics
When an industrial manufacturer needed to reduce supply chain costs, they teamed up with Crane Worldwide Logistics for an innovative solution.
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Cookware Company Stirs Up a Sizzling Supply Chain
When sales of cast-iron cookware heat up, a well-known brand prepares a solution to expand manufacturing capacity and warehouse space.
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A Cool Supply Chain Solution
A 3PL’s cold call leads to a cool technology solution that streamlines processes and minimizes service disruptions
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Customized TMS Delivers Annual Savings
WD-40 Company teamed up with Unyson for better network oversight and improved on-time service.
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Sealed Deals
Meal kit delivery service Sun Basket chose sustainable box liners from Sealed Air, a provider of protective e-commerce packaging materials. In addition to using organic produce, sustainable ingredients, and recyclable packaging, Sun Basket wanted new insulation materials for its shipping boxes while retaining its commitment to 100-percent recyclable packaging. Sun Basket selected Sealed Air’s TempGuard […]
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VMI Strategies: A Matter of Trust
Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) programs rely on strong working relationships, collaboration, and mutual trust between supply chain partners to make things happen.
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Maximizing Deliveries While Driving Down Transportation Costs – Transplace
Transplace established an LTL consolidation program to increase load capacity and reduce freight costs for a Canadian hardware wholesaler.
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Better Routing Takes Root
By switching from a manual to an automated routing and scheduling system, flowering plant seller Weatherford Farms puts the petals to the medal.
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6 Strategies for Finding the Right 3PL Partner
RFP season is upon us. It’s the time of year when shippers request bids and plan their optimal logistics strategy for 2018. Shippers are increasingly involving 3PLs in the request for proposal (RFP) process for access to tens of thousands of pre-qualified carriers, industry expertise, and advanced logistics technology that provides supply chain visibility and […]
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New Pallet Program Better by Half
Fun food manufacturer Jel Sert finds pooled half-pallets provide full supply chain benefits.
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