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Supply Chain Management
Achieving Competitive Advantage: How the Right 3PL Partner Can Help You Dominate Your Market
In today’s marketplace, all too often there is a disconnect between 3PL performance and clients’ expectations. As established 3PL companies mature and less robust players continue to enter the market, the gap between client expectations and 3PL deliverables continues to grow. Most 3PL value propositions focus primarily or exclusively on a client’s financial performance. Profit […]
Read MoreSupply Chain Gain: Call In the Experts
Outsource your way to a more efficient supply chain by selecting a knowledgeable and resourceful third-party logistics provider.
Read MoreSupply Chain Gain: Better Data, Better Results
New technology solutions help improve inventory visibility, increase routing agility, manage labor more effectively, and capture valuable information from the field.
Read MoreSupply Chain Gain: Shades of Green
Sustainability efforts can help companies grow more efficient supply chains.
Read MoreSupply Chain Gain: Trucking Tactics
Strategic transportation management puts shippers on the road to increased fuel economy and improved asset utilization.
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The Wheels of Change: Questions & Answers with Ed Melching
When Navistar sought to position itself for worldwide growth across all divisions by recasting its supply chain operations, it wiped the slate completely clean and put an engineer with zero logistics experience in charge. Here’s the story of how Ed Melching led Navistar to global growth—and significant supply chain gains.
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Trends—January 2011
Supply Chain Influences That Have Made Their Mark Supply chain innovation is as old as history. Consider the very beginning, that first impulse to sow seed. Flint-sharpened sticks enabled hunters and gatherers to stop roaming, then grow and harvest staple crops. Animal husbandry soon followed. This created an impetus to store and transport goods. Surplus […]
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Unleashing Logistics Excellence
Dogged pursuit of supply chain and warehousing efficiency led pet food manufacturer WellPet to partner with two 3PLs.
Read MoreManaging a Customer-Driven Supply Chain
When it comes to customer service, shippers want their carriers and 3PLs to provide the complete package.
Read MoreTrends—December 2010
A Cellular Distraction Exposes DOT’s Blind Spot When U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently took one hand off the Department of Transportation (DOT) steering wheel long enough to field another call about the dangers of cell phone use while driving, freight industry outsiders were eavesdropping. Truth be told, they’d prefer riding shotgun, even at their […]
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