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The Right Path to Add Value Using a Lead Logistics Partner (LLP)
Do you have unlocked optimization potential in your supply chain set up? A Lead Logistics Partner (LLP) can steer you in the right direction. Scalable, flexible and giving real visibility, your LLP journey can start with a small step.
Five Trends that Shaped Supply Chains in 2013
Supply Chain Matters (SCM) speaks to Mark Patterson, Vice President - Innovation and Product Incubation at DHL Supply Chain, to review the five most important supply chain trends of 2013, and what they mean for companies going into 2014 and beyond.
Show your Appreciation for Truck Drivers
Consider what the world, and your life, would be like if there were no truck drivers. How would products get from the manufacturers to your door? What would happen to the world’s economy?
Global Agility: The Value of True End-to-End Intercontinental Transportation Planning
With the unprecedented power of the omni-channel consumer driving behavior in the global marketplace, companies — regardless of where they sit in the supply chain — must not only find new ways to achieve efficiencies and operational control, but also to accomplish these objectives with the agility necessary to competitively serve today’s end consumer.
Global Transportation Management Development, Visibility, and Sophistication
American Shipper recently released its annual benchmark report entitled “Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study: Climbing the Visibility Sophistication Ladder.” The study surveys practitioners from a variety of industries as well as a cross section from a diverse organizational scale.
3PL Partner Helps Reduce Waste and Costs
An international producer of healthy, convenient and affordable foods was stuggling to maintain an effifient, cost-effective supply chain. The third-party logistics (3PL) provider managing its West Coast distribution was failing to deliver on commitments, leading to unacceptable results.
If UPS Botches This One Night, Christmas Is Ruined
Within UPS, Scott Abell is known as Mr. Peak. He spends the entire year obsessing about Peak Season, the busiest time at the world's largest shipping company. This Peak Season, UPS will deliver an estimated 300 packages per second. So how does it all work? Bloomberg Businessweek takes a look at how the company prepares for the holiday season.
Help Solve Santa’s Logistics Dilemmas with a Little Transportation Mathematics
In just one night, Santa has to visit millions of homes to deliver presents. If he could travel at the speed of light, the task would be simple. However, Einstein’s formula, E=MC², tells us that anything with mass cannot travel faster than the speed of light. And as we all know, Santa has mass.
Designing Transportation Networks
Transportation network design is a rapidly-growing analysis approach that enables companies to create digital “models” of their end-to-end supply chains to evaluate new strategies and identify break-through performance improvements.
Supply Chain Challenges & Growth Opportunities in 2014
For companies across all industries, 2013 brought a number of challenges that significantly impacted supply chains and presented even greater uncertainty around the state of the transportation industry. Shippers were forced to adapt to a slowly recovering economy and increased regulatory mandates, compounded by the continued pressure to cut costs and maintain service levels – all while effectively planning for the future.
FedEx and Cardinal Health Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Premier Healthcare 3PL Solutions
FedEx Corp. and Cardinal Health, announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance that will enable the companies to leverage their market-leading capabilities to provide 3PL solutions.
UPS and FedEx Researching Delivery Drones That Could Compete With Amazon
I would be shocked if a companies like UPS and FedEx aren't considering this," says Ryan Calo, a law professor specializing in drones and robotics. "If you want to compete in logistics and delivery, drones and unmanned robots have to be part of the conversation about where things are headed."
Google Seriously Gearing Up To Revolutionize Supply Chain Logistics
Google is looking at shoring up the same kinds of deficiencies that UPS and FedEx may be exploring, like the transport method for shuttling goods from central depots to local sort and delivery facilities.
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to Hold Hearings on Amazon Drones
Amazon's plans for using drones to deliver packages is just one example of the potential this technology offers consumers, and a reflection of the ingenuity of American business.
Thanksgiving Dinner and Your Supply Chain? It’s All About Logistics
Sourcing your goods usually means dealing with multiple suppliers located everywhere - time zones, cultures, distance, and languages - it's logistics.
Look (Closely) Before You Leap
Third party logistics (3PL) companies have become an important part of today’s supply chain. They have grown as their clients decided to become leaner, conserve capital, and focus on core business strengths and processes. On the other hand, many enterprises view distribution/fulfillment as a strategic tool driving their business models. For them, the supply chain is much more than a transactional process, it is a competitive weapon.
3PLs Investing Heavily in Big Data Capabilties to Ensure Seamless Supply Chain Integration
In today’s dynamic global marketplace, increasing logistics flexibility is critical as shippers look for greater collaboration with their third-party providers on the way to seamless integration of supply chain activities.
2014 Third-Party Logistics Study: The State of Logistics Outsourcing
For 18 years this study has documented the significant transformation of the 3PL industry. In that time 3PLs have evolved from tactical service providers to become, in the most
evolved relationships, collaborative partners delivering in many instances a comprehensive suite of integrated logistics services.
Minimize Vendor Non-Compliance
While vendor compliance programs offer value in the form of improved intelligence and savings, the real value and greater savings are attained by identifying and mitigating potentially non-compliant activity before it occurs, rather than simply reporting on it after the fact. Improved vendor management offers several important implications to your business, including: improved customer service, minimized lost sales and significantly increased profits. Simply put, companies need to move beyond vendor compliance to develop strategic vendor management programs because seven-figure savings...
The Visibility Imperative in the Massively Multidimensional Supply Chain
This Market Spotlight combines past research with current thinking about the challenges that continue to face manufacturers. It also discusses how visibility defined, and then enabled through cloud-based collaborative networks, can be a powerful tool in both solving existing business problems and anticipating new ones.
Featured Companies
Your global shipping solution. We provide more than 100 million pounds of weekly cargo lift to major cities in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. For almost 80 years, we have consistently pushed the edge of…
We are one of the world’s leading logistics companies, providing end-to-end design, implementation and operational capabilities in freight forwarding, contract logistics, transportation management and distribution management.
A freight forwarder reinvented with technology. iContainers is the cutting edge web platform with which importers exporters compare rates in real time and manage their maritime shipments quickly and easily from beginning to end. The technology at iContainers makes it…
VeriShip is a cloud-based parcel audit and intelligence company providing innovative parcel audit, intelligence and engineering solutions. VeriShip Parcel Accountability provides you with 3D expertise: Data, Diagnosis, and Design. Through parcel auditing, intelligence, and engineering, our 3D approach not only…
We are the integrated supply chain specialists solving business critical challenges from design to delivery. We provide end-to-end consulting and implementation solutions that link Innovation Management, Supply Chain Management and Logistics Management, as well as core ERP. We partner with…
The Transporeon Group links industrial and retail enterprises with their logistics service providers. The company, which has headquarters in Ulm and Kempten, does this via the Transporeon logistics platform, the Ticontract tendering platform and the Mercareon retail logistics platform. Over 1,000…
Integration Point offers a comprehensive suite of global trade management products encompassing all industries, geographies, and trade programs. By delivering visibility and localized knowledge on a single, web-based platform, Integration Point enables companies to achieve global compliance while maximizing…
At MacroPoint, our purpose is clear: Deliver a cost effective, third party load tracking solution engineered to “Track ANY Load.” Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, our staff is committed to delivering an automated location tracking solution built to tackle the real-world…
Rittal North America is built on a strong tradition of innovation and takes pride in a progressive approach to engineering comprehensive and effective solutions that supports our customers in the pursuit of their goals. Rittal manufactures the world’s leading…
American Transportation Research Institute
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), a well-known leader in transportation-related research, is an organization whose hallmark is innovative thinking, critical analysis and uncompromised excellence. As part of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) Federation, ATRI benefits from the broad support…
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