Feature Stories
Imports & Exports: An Insider's Guide to Getting it Right
A practical guide to importing and exporting, with advice from experts in the field.
E-Commerce Enabled
To survive—and thrive—in today’s accelerated e-commerce environment, companies are reworking fulfillment strategies and supply chain networks. These providers offer scalability and solutions.
Georgia: Where Logistics Fuels Growth
Georgia’s solid logistics infrastructure provided the firm foundation needed to keep cargo moving efficiently and safely regardless of a pandemic and national economic stress. These providers and trade partners led the way.
2021 Global Trade Management Guide
Global trade management solutions became even more important when supply chains were disrupted with the pandemic. By connecting sourcing and logistics, GTM systems help make global trade transparent, efficient, and cost-effective.
Global Logistics Reboot: A New Beginning
Global logistics gets a reboot thanks to the upheaval in product flows over the past year, mostly driven by the pandemic.
Case Studies
I.T. Toolkit
Getting Into the Spirits
Craft spirit makers like Montanya Distillers are limited to distributing liquor in select states. The Spirit Hub warehouse management platform helps the distiller sell directly to consumers while staying compliant with regulations across the country.
Reader Profile
Sandeep Dalvie: In His Element
A profile of Sandeep Dalvie, global supply chain director in the titanium technologies business with The Chemours Company, a chemistry company and one of the top producers of titanium dioxide.
Commentary
How-To
Ten Tips
Boosting Supply Chain Visibility
With the explosion of e-commerce delivery demands and shifts in supply chain practices, visibility is more important than ever. Here are 10 tips to help you optimize your business.
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Cross Dock Delivers New Level of Efficiency for Leading Retailer
Leveraging its network of cross dock locations, Hub Group optimized a top retailer’s supply chain, reducing transportation spend, condensing inbound loads to the retailer’s fulfillment centers, and shortening transit times.
Thought Leaders
WMS Must-Haves: Adaptability, Scalability for Efficiency and Profit
A warehouse management system should be adaptable, fast, affordable, and scalable to offer a low entry point into the warehouse, while providing a platform that expands exponentially according to the client's requirements, Mantis recommends.
Thought Leaders
The Role of WMS and MES in Empowering Warehouse Resiliency
From variable allocation strategies to mixed demand consolidation needs, the warehouse management system can be a valuable tool to achieve resilience in the face of changing consumer demand patterns and delivery timelines.
Past Issues
Digital Editions
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Online ExclusiveBobbie Ttooulis, Executive Director, Global Freight Solutions
Overcoming the Returns Challenge
Returns have become an integral part of online shopping. In order to ensure no delays in the return supply chain and give customers a first-class experience, retailers need a robust returns platform.
Online ExclusiveWill Chu, Vector, CEO & Co-Founder
3 Vital Steps Toward Contactless Supply Chains
As the industry works toward a contactless standard, shippers can get a leg up on what’s to come by ensuring their operations are digital, interoperable and able to collect and analyze data.
Checking InKeith Biondo
The President’s 2021 Trade Policy
The Biden Administration’s new trade policy report is filled with laudable goals such as beating COVID-19, American family relief, and the Build Back Better initiative. But should these goals be the basis of U.S. trade policy or negotiating position with other countries?
COVID-19Justin Marx
Meat Importer Carves Out Success
Because it imports and distributes to each level of the supply chain, including the last mile, Marx Foods has visibility into each supply chain link. In 2020, COVID taught it a lot about how to manage the supply chain in 2021.
Good QuestionKatrina Arabe
What's your best importing or exporting advice?
From utilizing barcoding to understanding the macro view of the global economy, these supply chain leaders share their best import and export guidance.
Supply Chain SecurityDavid Jarmon
Can Your Supply Chain Withstand the Unexpected?
How do we defend dynamic threats to the backbone of how we consume goods and services? Here are tips to achieve a secure and available supply chain.
The Lean Supply ChainPaul A. Myerson
Omnichannel Delivers, But at What Cost?
The real winners in e-commerce and omnichannel retail will be the ones who master managing their fulfillment and last-mile operations and costs.
Online ExclusiveViewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisBettina Staffa, CFO, DHL eCommerce Solutions Americas
Silencing Self-Doubt and Building the Next Generation of Women Leaders
In any field—but particularly male-dominated industries—it is important for managers and supervisors to challenge and encourage their young female workers. This is certainly the case in the logistics and e-commerce sector of which I am a part, both fast-growing and exciting fields that offer young women many opportunities.