Feature Stories
Supply Chain Management: It’s IoT Time
This story looks at several ways in which companies are applying Internet of Things (IoT) technology to supply chain management.
Alaska: Conquering The Last Frontier
By offering air, barge, ocean carrier, rail, and trucking services, logistics providers are minimizing the risks involved with transporting goods to, from, and within Alaska.
Top 100 Logistics IT Providers & Market Research Survey
Inbound Logistics surveys the market to determine the latest logistics technology trends and chooses 100 IT providers that are leading the way.
Apparel Logistics: Stepping Out in Style
This feature provides examines the supply chain challenges arising from some recent trends in the fashion industry, and looks at how brand owners and retailers are meeting those challenges.
Case Studies
I.T. Toolkit
Hitting a Freight Management Bull’s Eye
Ben E. Keith maximized freight management with help from ArrowStream’s Crossbow technology.
Reader Profile
Valerie Young: 2020 Vision
Profile of Valerie Young, vice president of global supply chain services and operations, 3M.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Optimizing Your Distribution Center Site
Maximizing the efficiency of a distribution center site requires strategic planning and ongoing analysis. Use these tips to optimize a DC site.
Sponsored
Knowledge Base
Shopping for a Transportation Management System: Factors to Consider
Use these five points to help find a transportation management system
Knowledge Base
Consumer Demand Helping Drive 3PL Industry Growth
Organizations are turning to third party logistics providers and enhanced transportation management technology to deliver the velocity, visibility, predictability, and control they need.
Knowledge Base
Achieving Greater Visibility and Agility
Leaders are exploring supply chain efficiencies with tools that enable stability, cost reduction, supply chain agility, product innovation, speed and visibility.
Knowledge Base
TMS Launches New Era: Control Tower Visibility
Your next transportation management system will soon serve as your company’s control tower with widespread visibility across all departments in your organization.
Solved!
Auditing Beyond Compliance
Evaluating the continuing alignment of customer requirements, acceptable associated risk and service provider capability.
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Large Multi-National Seeks Global Supply Chain Visibility
Rust-Oleum selected Celtic International, Transplace’s intermodal business unit, to provide intermodal and over-the-road transportation services for domestic shipments between its own facilities as well to its retailer customers.
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Uniformed Booking Platform Improves Vendor Compliance
A retailer needed to bring suppliers together and optimize processes so they teamed up with Unyson for a solution.
Thought Leaders
The Advantages of a Pop Up Supply Chain
Thought Leaders
The Wave of New Technologies in Logistics Requires Data Management Excellence
The right data can create the intelligence required to know where to begin to solve many common problems.
Thought Leaders
The Answer to Logistics Problems is Always in the Data
Thought Leaders
Global Trade Network: A Strategic, Competitive Asset
Companies are realizing they must change their mindset to remain competitive. Embracing a global trade network model removes some of the constraints that make global trade management a challenge
Thought Leaders
Gaining Visibility Through Data
Shippers are increasingly learning that to uncover efficiencies and forecast effectively they need visibility into their supply chains—including their payment process.
Past Issues
Digital Editions
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Checking InFelecia Stratton
We’ve Been Together for 35 Years
Inbound Logistics Editor Felecia Stratton marks a 35-year career anniversary with a look back at how technology changed supply management forever.
Good Question
GOOD QUESTION | What movie/TV show/song title best describes your job?
Readers pick the song/movie/TV show title that best describes their job.
IT Matters: Logistics & Supply Chain TechnologyJohn Maley
Blockchain Set to Shake Up Shipping
Online ExclusiveSmart Moves: Supply Chain Careers & Education AdviceSamuel Mueller
Turn to Technology to Attract the Next Generation of Workers
The supply chain is creating more jobs than it can fill. Here's why companies should use technology to change people's perceptions of the field.
Online ExclusiveSupply Chain PerspectivesGlenn Clinger
Truck Driver Health Should Drive Business Decisions
Truck drivers are the lifeblood of the supply chain. Here's how to protect this invaluable asset and address the driver shortage.
Supply Chain SecurityJean-Pierre Geronimi
5 Ways to Cut the Risk of Cargo Theft
Online ExclusiveTrade Compliance StrategistRobert Finn
The Keys to Dangerous Goods/Hazmat Shipping Compliance
The strict regulations governing DG/hazmat shipping are not going away and, in fact, may become even more stringent. Here's how to avoid rejected shipments and manage the process.
Online ExclusiveViewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisInbal Axelrod
Transparency to Efficiency: How IoT Can Increase the Productivity of Your Transportation (Sponsored)
Utilizing technology is key to the future of business and IoT has increased the connectivity of all areas of business.
Viewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisRoei Ganzarski
3 Steps to a Demand-Driven Supply Chain
Customers expect immediate access to goods and services, and convenient delivery options. In short, it’s an on-demand economy. Companies must adapt and start optimizing their supply chains to stay competitive. Here’s how.