Feature Stories
You Are Everywhere: Mapping the New Retail Supply Chain
Multi-channel apparel retailers such as Nordstrom use strategic inventory management, order fulfillment, transportation management, and reverse logistics to meet customer demand.
Restaurant Logistics: Serving up the Perfect Meal
Facing increasing food safety and quality standards and soaring commodity prices, the restaurant industry turns to supply chain management to manage super-sized challenges.
Navigating Pharma Logistics
Pharmaceuticals manufacturers face special supply chain challenges such as temperature control, security, chain of custody, and regulatory compliance, but successful strategies help deal with these issues.
Case Studies
DC Solutions
Data Warehousing System Puts an End to Paperwork
Faced with workflow inefficiencies, paper distributor and converter Roosevelt Paper implemented an automated data collection system from solutions provider Intermec that transformed its shipping and storage operations.
Reader Profile
Sherry Askew: Beauty Calls
Sherry Askew, transportation manager at Revlon Consumer Products, the well-known maker of beauty and personal care items, negotiates freight rates that keep the company’s bottom line looking good.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Ensuring Routing Guide Compliance
Help vendors comply with your routing guide by including carrier contact information and other relevant freight shipping details, says Harold B. Friedman of Data2Logistics.
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Global
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Economic Development
Utilities & Site Selection: Energized for Success
For many businesses selecting sites for new distribution centers and warehouses, ensuring adequate and affordable energy to power the facility is a challenge. Smart companies enlist the help of local resources to explore the cost of utilities in municipalities they are considering for new locations.
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Checking InFelecia Stratton
Supply Chain Therapy Strikes a Balance
As retailers look to grow their business, the challenge of keeping up with the market becomes exponentially greater—especially as new channels emerge, writes Editor Felecia Stratton. Supply chain management can help create balance between supply and demand.
Green Landscape: Supply Chain SustainabilityPaul Fitzgerald
Reusable Shipping Dunnage Protects Sustainability Efforts
Protective reusable dunnage can take the place of single- or limited-use corrugated or wood filler to move pallets and products securely in an environmentally conscious manner, writes Paul Fitzgerald of Paylode Cargo Protection Systems.
IT Matters: Logistics & Supply Chain TechnologyMichael Watson, Ph.D.
Discovering the Value of Analytics
To better define analytics and develop better analytics strategies, consider the three different types of analytics: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. IBM’s Michael Watson explains each type.
The Lean Supply ChainPaul A. Myerson
Minimizing Wasted Movement
Eliminating unnecessary movements in warehousing operations goes a long way toward improving your supply chain’s Lean profile.
Viewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisRonald Leibman
FMCSA Abandons Carrier Oversight
Recent pronouncements by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration signal the agency’s retreat from its statutory and historical oversight of carrier safety in favor of placing more due diligence responsibilities on shippers and brokers.