Feature Stories
2018 Global Logistics Guide
Inbound Logistics' 14th annual Global Logistics Guide presents a transportation and logistics world atlas to help you stay on top of shifting global dynamics and identify and map out continents and countries that require further exploration.
E-Commerce: Cultivating a New Logistics Landscape
E-commerce continues to mow down traditional business practices. To adapt, companies serving manufacturing, industrial, and retail customers are seeding their portfolios with new services, and not letting any grass grow under their feet.
Technology Fuels Truckload Transport
Dedicated truckload fleets fill up on technology solutions that pump crucial data from power units and trailers and deliver it to shippers ready to give their supply chains the gas.
Georgia: Pathways to Progress
In the logistics sphere, Georgia offers every important road—as well as air and sea route—to success.
Case Studies
LeaderSHIP
Running a Global Organization Like Family
Profile of Frank Guenzerodt, president and CEO, Dachser USA
Reader Profile
Mike Parsley: Supply Chains Suits Him Well
Profile of Mike Parsley, senior vice president of distribution with Tailored Brands, Inc., a U.S.-based retail holding company for Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, and other men’s apparel brands.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Increasing Supply Chain Visibility
Use these tips to obtain end-to-end visibility, and ultimately, ensure a more efficient supply chain.
Trends
Georgia at the Center of Innovation
Capacity Crunch? Carriers Weigh In
Consumer Confidence Builds Up Industrial Real Estate
New Jersey, Rhode Island: Highways to Hell
Logistics Jobs: Follow The Money
Global
Coping With Trade Compliance Challenges
Imports, E-Commerce Drive Industrial Real Estate Demand
Small Businesses Face Import Overhead
Leveling the Ocean Shipping Playing Field
Good Start for Air Cargo? Too Early to Tell
Long Beach Port Goes With the Flow
Sponsored
Advance Your Career - SCTL at the University of Washington
Companies concerned with cost control, competitive differentiation, and innovation are more than ever seeking professionals who can drive substantive change.
Thought Leaders
Shipment Visibility Gets a Digital Facelift - Amber Road
With a digital model of the global supply chain, companies can realize collaboration, automation, analytics and flexibility. The result is a transformed global supply chain with improved margins, greater agility, and reduced risk.
Thought Leaders
Advantages of a Niche Third Party Logistics Provider - MD Logistics
Providers that specialize and target a specific industry, geographical market, or will limit their service offering are referred to as niche 3PL’s. Here are some of the advantages to using a niche 3PL over a traditional provider.
Past Issues
Digital Editions
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3PL Line: Third-Party Logistics PerspectivesBill Goodgion
Trouble Finding Capacity? How a 3PL Can Help
Partnering with a 3PL could be the best solution to improved visibility and lower costs over the long haul.
Checking InKeith Biondo
Sky. Falling or Not?
Demand-driven logistics can help manage supply chain disruption caused by trade uncertainty, tariffs, protectionism, and retaliation.
Good Question
What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self About Supply Chain Management?
Readers reveal what they would tell their younger selves about supply chain management.
IT Matters: Logistics & Supply Chain TechnologyJeff Metersky
5 Reasons to Make Demand Modeling Part of Your Supply Chain Design Process
Demand Modeling helps improve the design of your supply chain to better account for explainable changes in demand.
The Lean Supply ChainPaul A. Myerson
Internet of Things to Come
The Internet of Things offers greater differentiation and innovation of the supply chain, which can lead to a competitive advantage.