Feature Stories
Amping Up the CX
A look at some of the strategies that shippers and their 3PL partners use to provide end customers with an excellent experience.
Food Packaging: That's a Wrap
Environmental impacts, cost concerns, and technology advances drive food packaging innovation.
Career Moves that Pack a Punch
What makes one supply chain career move more impactful than another? We asked several supply chain professionals to share the moves that proved most significant.
Case Studies
IN BRIEF: New Services & Solutions
Read the latest supply chain updates in technology, transportation, products, and services in December 2020.
I.T. Toolkit
Buddha Brands Embraces the Philosophy of Supply Chain Integration
Buddha Brands partners with TrueCommerce to achieve full integration between its EDI and ERP solutions.
Reader Profile
Tonya Jackson: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
A profile of Tonya Jackson, senior vice president and chief supply chain officer with Lexmark, a creator of imaging solutions and technologies.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Picking an Inventory Solution
With the right inventory management solution, businesses can flex and adapt quickly regardless of market conditions. These eight tips from Oracle NetSuite will help you pick an inventory management solution that positions your business for success.
Ten Tips
Ensuring a Successful 3PL Partnership
With the pandemic forcing companies to embrace a new normal, many are reimagining their supply chains and turning to third-party logistics (3PL) providers for guidance. Here’s how to get the most out of your 3PL relationship.
Sponsored
Above & Beyond
Rolling Out a Major Product Transition Across the Globe
C3 Solutions prepared to shift all users from their Adobe Flash product version to a brand new HTML5 platform, a comprehensive project with a firm and non-negotiable deadline
Above & Beyond
What Makes a Go-To Ecommerce Partner? Ask Baboon To The Moon
Gaining command over their inventory as well as every order, return, and exchange, bag maker Baboon to the Moon is over the moon about its logistics partner.
Above & Beyond
Collaboration Provides Unification, Visibility, and Reporting on Key Factors
TForce Worldwide partnered with a large manufacturing client, building a system that met its needs and a unified platform that provides complex data to support better business decisions.
Knowledge Base
Procurement Practices That Pay Off
How do you know you’re paying the right price for the right level of service? The right business intelligence drives sound strategies, says Ken Adamo, chief of analytics at DAT Freight & Analytics.
Knowledge Base
How to Prepare Your Warehouse for a Second Wave of COVID-19
Warehouses and fulfillment centers should take these precautions to mitigate COVID-19 risks, keep the workforce safe, and avoid costly downtime.
Thought Leaders
What Is the Best Method to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
Ruan believes in developing strong partnerships by understanding our customers’ stories and continuing to improve our service as their needs evolve. And the best way to know if we are achieving that goal is to ask them.
Thought Leaders
Control Tower Capabilities—Redefined
Control tower capabilities help companies make better supply chain decisions across all industries. Any business that experiences supply chain disruption and wants fast and accurate resolutions to benefit all parties stands to benefit, says Lori Harner of E2open.
Past Issues
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Online ExclusiveMark Triplett, COO, Stem Inc.
Energy Management: The Next Step in Supply Chain Optimization
It's time to look beyond the usual IT enhancements and optimize the supply chain with smart energy management, which offers a triple threat: saving money, adding new revenue streams, and reducing impact on the environment.
Checking InKeith Biondo
Think Big, Act Small
Do small to mid-sized logistics solutions providers have the upper hand in this COVID-created business environment? Or are huge multi-nationals doing just fine, or at least as good as everyone else?
COVID-19Rob Harvey
Supply Chain 4.0 Needs Order-to-Cash 4.0
How the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of the traditional order-to-cash process across the supply chain.
Good Question
What supply chain adjustment would you have made at the start of 2020 if you knew then what you know now?
From preparing for e-commerce growth to auditing cybersecurity practices, supply chain leaders share the adjustments they'd make at the start of 2020 knowing what they know now.
IT Matters: Logistics & Supply Chain TechnologyAndrew Bruce
Blockchain Brings Value to Touchless Supply Chains
Blockchain delivers the visibility, provenance, and data accuracy to allow for contractual flexibility and facilitate frictionless transactions, which are key as global logistics goes touchless.