Transportation

A strong freight payment process is a key to excellence in transportation management. Benchmark your organization's freight payment processes with best practices, and learn how to take steps today to: tighten your payment controls and increase the accuracy and thoroughness of both your cost and shipment data.

Building on a long tradition of supply chain innovation, HP in 2010 saw opportunities to further leverage its scale and launched a company-wide transformation program targeting substantial supply chain improvements in procurement, processes and IT, warranty and services, and network and logistics.

Google Glass is Google’s project to create augmented reality glasses. Google Glass is being designed for consumers, but the first clear business application may occur in warehouses.

XRS Turnpike, the fleet management and optimization technology that delivers 360-degree, real-time information at a truly affordable price. Turnpike puts the future of trucking in the palm of your hands.

XRS Corporation, (formerly Xata Corporation), debuted its new XRS product, the trucking industry’s first and only complete mobile platform for compliance and fleet optimization. The company announced at the Truckload Carriers Association Annual Conference today in Las Vegas that the XRS product is now available for sale, with shipment during the second quarter of the calendar year.

Gilt’s new distribution center delivers the perfect order. While speed is important, this system was also designed to deliver the perfect order.

UPS commissioned a study by comScore polling more than 3,100 online shoppers to gain insight into the consumer online shopping experience. Unlike most customer experience surveys, the study evaluates consumer shopping habits and preferences from pre-purchase to post-delivery, including areas such as free shipping and returns.

Using UPS customized logistics, this e-retailer improved its bottom line and customer experience, becoming an industry leader in the process.

Quiet Logistics, the eCommerce fulfillment provider of choice for premium brands in the fashion and apparel, health and beauty, and home goods sectors is pleased to announce its expansion into Managed Services. Managed Services make the technology, business processes, software systems, professional services and resource management skills that Quiet leverages in its own third-party logistics facilities available to clients inside their own warehouses.

This report focuses on gaining visibility into critical elements across the end-to-end logistics network for improving cost and service. But before a company can reduce inventory or landed cost, it needs visibility into them. Only then can it apply tools to agilely adapt to the information it collects.

A very similar concept to a measure of a business’s sustainability is its assessed ability to readily weather its business environment and prosper in that environment. Paralleling the good quality of ‘hardness’ means you must also have a measure of ‘toughness.’

Emerging markets felt the effects of the continuing global slowdown in 2012 but generally weathered it better than developed countries that are their main markets. The 45 emerging markets featured in the 2013 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index grew at an average of 4.4%. In contrast, the U.S. economy grew at 2.2% while the EU contracted 0.2%.

Easing the Burden with On-Demand Logistics Solutions - This white paper shows how embracing the features and functionality offered in these solutions, business processes can be streamlined; communications between business partners could be more easily shared.

Descartes’ Customs & Regulatory Compliance solutions provide you with the industry’s widest array of customs and regulatory solutions. Our modular approach also enables businesses to select specific features and functions based on compliance requirements, available in-house resources, technology infrastructure, budgets and relationships with trading partners.

The recovery in Asia’s rapid growth markets, especially those of China and India, is gradually leading the world out of recession. In many developing economies, output is already above pre-crisis trends and logistics investment is vigorous - suggesting that expansion is under way.

Kewill's 3rd Annual Survey of the state of global trade management is presented in this informative report based on responses from over 800 logistics and export professionals.

In a recent study conducted by Peerless Research Group, supply chain and logistics managers are in agreement that global supply chains are becoming progressively complex causing more potential points for disruption along the supply network.

The highest logistics and supply chain salaries continue to be earned by those who concentrate on adapting new technological advances and maintain a life-long commitment to learning. View our latest salary survey.