Alliance Award

Through a unique trucking partnership, the extreme discount retailer has streamlined its process, integrated new technology and cut the size of its fleet in half while serving more locations than ever—all while reducing the number of miles driven by 20%.

Gourmet ice pop maker adopts collaborative cold chain solution to keep profits from melting away due to costly logistics challenges—and takes home a 2018 Alliance Award in the process.

Over the past 10 years, we have heralded the virtues of collaboration—the art of leveraging the strengths of various partners to achieve solutions you never thought possible in your logistics operation.

Those carriers, third-party logistics providers and U.S. ports that crossed the service-excellence finish line ahead of their competitors collected their Quest for Quality Awards at our annual Awards Dinner.

In an era where effective supply chain collaboration is both highly valued and elusive, Logistics Management and SMC³ shine the spotlight on some of the nation’s best examples in its annual awards ceremony.

Our digital world has allowed us to connect with colleagues and business partners over great distances, creating the illusion that time zones and space have evaporated between us—that we’re there in the same room at the same time.

A leading distributor of professional salon products in the U.S. forms unique partnerships with its key LTLs to lower transport costs, reduce its carbon footprint and improve service to its 565 store locations.

Over the last few years, Logistics Management (LM) has championed the concept of evolving shipper/carrier/service provider collaboration—the idea that breaking down the walls of communication and creating transparency among all partners in a logistics network will yield process improvements and new efficiencies throughout the entire supply chain.

The Alliance Award recognizes transportation partnerships that produce meaningful outcomes and drive supply chain excellence.