Feature Stories
Send It Back! How to Manage E-Commerce Returns
Up to 30 percent of e-commerce orders shipped to customers wind up coming back. Here's how smart retailers box up their reverse logistics strategies.
Florida: Gateway to America, Pathway to Global Trade
For logistics and manufacturing companies, the Sunshine State is the place to grow.
Supply Chain Visibility: Can You See Me Now?
Using technology to gain a clear view into your supply chain can both wipe out costs and pour revenue to your bottom line.
Tax, Energy, Land Incentives Drive Economic Development
Economic development partners collaborate to create incentive packages tailored to each company's needs.
Case Studies
I.T. Toolkit
Inventory System Makes Mama and Data Proud
After Carter's implements a cloud-based platform, inventory management and supply chain visibility become child's play.
LeaderSHIP
Fail Fast, Then Move On
Jim Barnes did not have a mentor at the start of his career. "No one taught me how to become a leader," recalls Barnes, chief executive officer of enVista, an Indianapolis-based supply chain consultancy and software firm.
Reader Profile
Erik Snyder Keeps His Spirits Up
Erik Snyder, president of North America supply and procurement with Diageo, oversees Diageo's end-to-end supply chain and procurement operation in North America, including sourcing raw materials, distillation, manufacturing, packaging, planning, and customer service.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Moving Cross-border Shipments
As your suppliers and customers become more geographically diverse, more of your supply chain and customer experience depends on moving shipments through Customs accurately and without delay.
Trends
What Do the New UPS Surcharges Mean?
Big Apple Polishes Freight Transportation System
Global
Is Asia The New Bermuda Triangle?
In Iceland, There's No Place Like Drone
DP World Extends Services to Europe with Unifeeder Acquisition
Sponsored
Knowledge Base
Use Big Data to Improve Your Supply Chain
Organizations must have the right processes and strategies in place in order to access that data, analyze it, and then make it actionable.
Knowledge Base
Cross-Brand Collaborations: X Marks the Spot
Cross-brand collaborations seem to be everywhere right now. But why the sudden explosion in collaborations? And why do brands do it?
Knowledge Base
Getting More Strategic about Transportation Sourcing
When faced with the logistical dilemma created by the truck driver shortage, increased traffic, and the increase from retail to e-commerce, challenges can't be fixed by doing what's always been done.
Knowledge Base
Overcoming Omni-channel Challenges in Retail
Supply chains should allocate product across today's complex omni-channel networks to fulfill customer demand.
Solved!
A Consolidated Fulfillment Solution Enables True Global Visibility
SEKO Logistics helped virtualization technology company Sphere 3D Corp. gain global visibility and reduce warehousing and logistics costs.
Thought Leaders
Integrated TMS Platform Provides Supply Chain Benefits
With an integrated TMS platform, customers can feel confident that they will get a variety of shipping options and correct pricing based on where they are shipping to.
Thought Leaders
Returns in the E-Commerce Retail Supply Chain
In recent years, a rise in e-commerce sales has led to an increase in the amount of items returned. This increase in returns creates a challenging situation for retailers and an opportunity for their 3PL providers.
Past Issues
Digital Editions
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Checking InKeith Biondo
Returning Experience
The war between the retail/e-commerce customer experience and increasing costs is heating up, thanks to the impact that rising transportation prices are having on the retail process. That trend plagues e-commerce players and retailers, both large and small.
Good QuestionKatrina Arabe
Good Question: What's your best time-management tip?
Readers tell us the best ways to manage time with a busy schedule.
IT Matters: Logistics & Supply Chain TechnologyMichael Gravier
Leveraging Technology: Put Strategy First
Tech trends enable strategies that are reshaping global supply chains. These new technologies complement each other; used in combination they create synergies far beyond their individual impacts. Here are five key strategies that technologies of the near future will empower.
Risks and Rewards: Risk Management StrategiesDoug Collins
5 Tactics for Managing the Unexpected
No supply chain is immune from risk, and the farther a company's supply chain traverses the globe, the more opportunity for things to go awry.
Viewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisBen Conwell
Will Airbnb for Warehouses Take Off?
On-demand services are becoming so much a part of our daily lives that millennials can't imagine a world before Uber or Postmates. Now, on-demand service is becoming a reality in the logistics real estate sector.