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Rolling Back the Walmart Way

As Walmart continues to evolve from five-and-dime regional retailer to global powerhouse, Kevin X. Jones stays focused on supply chain best practices that guarantee the consumer everyday low pricing.

The Mechanics of 3PL Partnerships

How do you keep a shipper-3PL relationship running smoothly? Learn the tools of the trade.

| 3PL | Supply Chain Management | Transportation

Market Research: 3PL Perspectives 2014

Inbound Logistics’ 10th annual research report looks under the hood of the 3PL sector to see what makes the market tick.

| 3PL | Partnership | Supply Chain Management

Readers’ Choice Top 10 3PL Excellence Awards 2014

MORE TO THE STORY: About the Survey Respondents In Their Own Words: A Sampling of Reader Comments 3PLs to Watch When a company’s supply chain operations are firing on all cylinders, product flows through the distribution center without a hitch, shipments arrive on time, and customer satisfaction abounds. Such a finely tuned machine doesn’t occur […]

| Distribution | Retail | Supply Chain Management | Transportation

Forecasting the Unexpected: Home Improvement Retailers and Emergency Response

During the calm before the storm, home improvement stores stock up on the products consumers will need to repair damage and rebuild after an extreme weather event.

| Partnership | Supply Chain Management | Transportation

Supplier Compliance: Ask the Experts

Need to gain control of inbound transportation? Then get on the same page as your suppliers. Inbound Logistics picks the brains of seven industry experts for their advice.

<em>Inbound Logistics</em>’ Summer Reading Guide 2014

| Supply Chain Management

Inbound Logistics’ Summer Reading Guide 2014

Before you hit the beach, make sure you have all your gear. Sunglasses? Check. Sunscreen? Check. Reading material to help streamline supply chain operations? Check. These books give you the information you need to improve operations, brush up on existing skills, or gain new ones.

June 18, 2014 | Manufacturing | Ports | Supply Chain Management

Trends—June 2014

Panama Canal Countdown: Port of Los Angeles Goes Big With the completion of the Panama Canal project just around the corner, conjecture about how the expansion will affect shipping patterns continues. East Coast ports and players are bullish. Elsewhere, opinions are more muted. The Panama Canal is making a loud impact, however, on the Port […]

May 21, 2014 | Green Logistics | Retail | Supply Chain Management | Trucking

Trends—May 2014

TOTO Plumbs the Benefits of Green To gain favor among ethically conscious customers, retailers and manufacturers continue to put a marketing spin on sustainability. Greenwashing has many shades. Often it surfaces in buzzwords such as eco-friendly and recycled. Sometimes it reveals itself as trust in a brand, or the type of ingredients found in a […]

| Partnership | Supply Chain Management | Transportation Management Systems (TMS)

Supply Chain Relationship Management

In a world where trucking capacity becomes constrained, relationships matter. Managing those relationships strategically versus tactically can make a huge difference in the viability and reliability of each company’s supply chain. The first ingredient to successful supply chain relationship management is having the ability to measure a supply chain partner’s performance. The next is possessing […]

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