Feature Stories
How to Leverage Rail/Intermodal…Now and Later
When used smartly, rail and intermodal can give your supply chain a lift today and down the road. These guidelines will help you get the most out of intermodal, even in a challenging market.
Searching for the Perfect Site
Selecting the right site for your manufacturing facility, DC, or warehouse is more than just pinpointing a spot on the map. It’s about finding the best blend of features and opportunities those sites have to offer.
Yard Work
By weeding out detention costs, trimming inefficiencies, and seeding visibility and productivity, yard management systems (YMS) can fertilize your supply chain.
Maritime Logistics: Automate & Innovate
This story surveys some of the advanced technology that marine ports are implementing to improve their operations, with a side look at implementations at a couple of shipping lines.
Case Studies
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West Pak Avocado Grows a Ripe 3PL Partnership
West Pak Avocado distributes avocados to hundreds of customers around the globe. To maintain efficient transportation through seasonal peaks, West Pak partnered with a third-party logistics provider to move produce as quickly as possible.
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Top Hat and Tales
Wallaroo Hat Company co-founder Stephanie Carter applies her entrepreneurial spirit to tackling outsourcing, tariffs, and pandemic challenges, and to pursuing new ventures, such as a nonprofit that assists women and girls in Cameroon.
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Creating an Exceptional Customer Experience
If you deliver poor customer service, you’ll lose business. But you can turn things around with a serious commitment to meaningful change and work across your entire enterprise.
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Top Packaging Innovations Enable E-Commerce Growth and Sustainability
Packaging is one of the important processes within e-commerce fulfillment. Working with a 3PL such as DHL Supply Chain can help you develop packaging that improves sustainability, lowers costs, and delivers the desired customer experience.
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Finding the Sweet Spot for Export Resin Weights
Gulf Winds provided a lightweight equipment solution for a major chemical shipper that maximized product loading and achieved significant savings.
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TMS Enables Shippers to Manage Exceptions and Navigate Disruptions
TMS solutions are increasingly important to improve visibility and communication, gain efficiencies, prepare for the future of a decentralized workforce, minimize risk, and improve workflows, safety, and sustainability.
Thought Leaders
Shining New Light on Dock Operations
With better visibility into loading dock activity, companies can bring significant improvements to their warehouse operations.
Thought Leaders
Partnering with a Logistics Specialist Brings Major Benefits
Thomas Griffin, president at DLS Worldwide, discusses how partnering with a large, experienced logistics company can offer technology, agility, and customer service benefits.
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Online ExclusiveOphelia Otto, Industry Relations Lead, scoutbee
Become a “Partner of Choice” to Unleash the Full Power of Procurement
In a post-COVID supply environment, now is the time to revolutionize by taking the best of both worlds and consolidating them into a new approach moving forward: partner-centric procurement.
Online ExclusiveHaytham Elhawary, Co-Founder and CEO, KINETIC
3 Tips for Using Data-Driven Technology to Augment Worker Safety
Shippers utilizing IoT technology now have more data at their fingertips than ever before. When it comes to optimizing this information to keep workers safe from illnesses such as COVID-19 and injury, here are three tips to keep in mind.
Online ExclusiveChris Lanier, VP of Distribution Services, CorneaGen
Serving Eye Surgeons During the Pandemic: Relying on Ingenuity and Partnerships
Those in transportation logistics face new realities brought by COVID-19, but are especially challenged in the time-sensitive delivery of tissue for transplants. Perhaps the biggest challenge is ramping back up to meet pent-up demand for surgeries.
Online ExclusiveAshley Lewis, VP, Product Management, NEXT Trucking
3 Ways Retailers Can Fully Prepare for the Holiday Season
COVID-19 created a whole new world of retail, with more online orders, increased transparency, and a focus on scalable redundancy. Retailers that meet these three goals may have a joyful holiday season after all.
Online ExclusiveAudette Miller, Lead, Project Manager Professional Services, Peak-Ryzex
3 Signs a Warehouse Needs a Wireless Site Assessment
A well-designed Wi-Fi network will reduce the amount of time devoted to maintaining, troubleshooting, and/or “fixing” the wireless network, and keep workers happy and productive. Here are three signs a warehouse may be due for a wireless site assessment.
Checking InKeith Biondo
The World Is Your Warehouse 3.0
LEO satellites will enable e-commerce companies to take orders from everywhere and anywhere, allowing all countries, developed or not, to share what we take for granted.
COVID-19Maureen Sullivan
Solving Distributor Liquidity Shortages
Distributors face liquidity shortages brought on by the pandemic. Pressed between both struggling ends of the supply chain, they can only negotiate so far. What are they to do? The answer may lie in their receivables.
Good QuestionKatrina Arabe
If you could switch jobs with someone for a day, who would it be?
From a presidential debate moderator to working on a non-GMO farm, supply chain leaders discuss what jobs they'd want to try out for one day.
Online ExclusiveViewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisRon Atapattu, Founder & President, Overseas Cargo Inc. (ShipOCI)
How Election Results Will Impact Supply Chain Stakeholders
Will the election results clarify supply chain issues and put business leaders in a position to start choosing strategic directions?