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Supply Chain
A Blockchain Reality Check
Blockchain is the topic of the moment in supply chain. But what can it really do for supply chains today, and where can it take us tomorrow?
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5 Ways to Mitigate High Freight Rates
Consistent economic growth in industries dependent on logistics has increased freight demand, creating more loads than available trucks. Spot market rates are up 25 to 35 percent over 2017, and analysts expect tight capacity and higher costs to continue into 2019. The main factors impacting the current freight market during this historic time include: Driver […]
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Is Your 3PL Provider Causing You Headaches? Here is What to Look for in a 3PL Partnership – Ascent Global Logistics
It’s 2018, which means that shippers are looking for 3PLs to perform at higher levels than ever before. Because of various market conditions such as the driver shortage, record freight volumes, a volatile trade environment, and increasingly complex retailer delivery requirements, many 3PLs are only offering customers enhanced technology. While technological innovation is necessary, there […]
Read MoreHow Small Businesses Can Win at E-Commerce
If you’re a small business trying to establish yourself or grow in e-commerce, you know it can be an uphill battle. Sure, you have a great product, but you can sometimes be overwhelmed by large companies that seem to always find their way to the top of every search engine. Meanwhile, the big boxes offer […]
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Thinking Beyond Home Delivery – SEKO Logistics
Consumer expectations are becoming increasingly demanding, and matching supply to demand is crucial for any successful supply chain. Speed is where it’s at—if you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. As consumers become increasingly savvy online, companies are quickly learning the importance of being at the forefront of change. Providing consumers with all […]
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Jack Buffington: Here for the Beer
Jack Buffington is supply chain leader with MillerCoors and professor at the University of Denver. Responsibilities: Oversees U.S. warehousing operations for MillerCoors. Developing a supply chain program and supply chain, materials science, and sustainability research projects for the University of Denver. Experience: Post-doctoral fellow, Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden; adjunct professor, University of Denver; […]
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Admiral of the Fleet
In the early 1990s, John Burke worked for Northside Foods. “We offered redistribution services on a very small scale in the restaurant space,” he says. That meant bringing smaller-volume shipments into a consolidation center and then shipping mixed truckloads, with multiple SKUs, to customers’ distribution centers. MORE TO THE STORY: Try It All That simple […]
Read MoreIN BRIEF | New Services & Solutions
Transportation Logistics provider Dachser expanded its range of services, launching 26 less-than-containerload (LCL) connections in 2018. As of June 2018, Dachser added these routes: weekly LCL services from Bremen, Germany, to new destinations in the United States (Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, Houston, Atlanta, and Charlotte); from Hamburg to India (Nhava Sheva and Chennai); […]
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Why do you use a third-party logistics provider?
We use 3PLs in regions where it is too costly for us to perform services in-house at the service level we require. 3PLs tend to have more density in the regions we use them in, and they can leverage their other partnerships to give us the service level we need at the best possible cost. […]
Read MoreWorld Cup Nets Big Numbers
1 million fans in the stands. 2 billion TV viewers. 32 teams. 64 matches. It all adds up to scoring a logistics planning goal at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
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Readers Choice: Top 10 3PL Excellence Awards 2018
From truckload capacity constraints to the intricacies of trade compliance, the global supply chain presents shippers with an ever-shifting set of logistics conundrums. That’s when they turn to the experts: third-party logistics (3PL) providers. MORE TO THE STORY: Ones to Watch About the Survey Respondents What Is More Important? In Their Own Words: A Sampling […]
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Pork Processor Brings Home the Bacon
To ensure the path from pigs to people is the shortest possible, Smithfield Foods cooks up a sizzling supply chain.
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Transplace TMS Causes Chemical Reaction
Transplace’s technology and expertise help Brenntag streamline operations and realize greater visibility.
Read MoreNews & Trends Impacting Manufacturing
The Myth of the Summer Slowdown Manufacturers have long believed that buyers also ramp down during the summer. Though that was true in the past, in today’s digital-driven, ultra-competitive global supply chain, procurement teams can’t afford to take any time off. In fact, data on the buying activity on the Thomas Network at Thomasnet.com finds […]
Read MorePreparing for the Digitization of Logistics
By 2019 there could be 224 million digital shoppers in the United States, and according to research by McKinsey, about 70 percent of those shoppers will choose the cheapest form of home delivery. Why? Because of increased consumer preferences and the evolution of warehouse-to-home delivery systems. As we move beyond traditional deliveries and into a […]
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.
Read MoreSwitching Gears: Positioning Your Business to Take Advantage of Tax Reform in Your Financial Reporting
It could be the best of times – or the worst of times – depending on how you incorporate certain elements of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) into your financial reporting. With proper planning and forecasting, businesses across the manufacturing and logistics industries may reap substantial benefits under the new tax law. However, […]
Read MoreGaining Control: Why European Time Slot Management Makes Sense in the United States
Inefficiencies at the dock can cause long lines of trucks outside a warehouse, congestion on access roads, delayed deliveries, and long driver wait times, all with the potential of accruing steep detention fees. European logistics managers deal with these inefficiencies—resulting from space constraints and too few docks for trucks—on a regular basis. Typical European shipper […]
Read MoreDriving Your Shipping Business Forward With Analytics
Inbound logistics is a complicated affair, carefully managing the movement of raw materials, components, and finished inventory throughout the production process before it goes out into the wider supply chain. Shipping in particular can be very costly, so great effort is put by shippers into ensuring vessels operate at capacity and as efficiently as possible. […]
Read MoreHumans Are What’s Wrong with the Global Supply Chain
Most business is driven by an incentive to grow. The global supply chain follows a different narrative. Growth costs more than is affordable for the steamship line whose business it is to transport cargo, and there’s no way for these carriers to differentiate from competitors. Instead, carriers cut their costs and increase their margins. The […]
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