Best Practices

Frequently overlooked and often pushed to the bottom of a shipper’s supply chain agenda, good inbound freight management can help companies improve shipment visibility, save money, and enhance customer service.

Managing risk should be a priority for any supply chain, and that means prequalifying contractors, suppliers, and vendors.

For internet retailers, velocity is everything, while a manufacturer values knowing where their inventory is in the yard to feed the production line, and retail distribution values on-time deliveries that drives customer satisfaction.

Amazon announced the HQ2 finalists, but not really, every ounce of energy wasted on this bid is abuse by the Seattle firm, hoping you’ll produce an irrational term sheet the city Amazon has already selected will be asked to match.

What makes a great supply chain? Greg Gerstenhaber, a partner in the Bain & Company Performance Improvement practice, outlines how a supply chain can become a competitive advantage for a company, and how to evaluate what changes your supply chain needs to become a true partner of the business.

Continuing its mission of evolving with the supply chain and creating innovative solutions that fulfill shifting customer needs, SMC³ has expanded RateWare XL and BatchMark XL, adding advanced small-package rating capabilities to the industry’s most powerful and reliable LTL rating and auditing solutions.

Amazon has set the standard for customer service and today every consumer expects every retailer to have the same service capabilities from their e-commerce business including an integrated transport management system to provide accurate, on-time delivery of customer orders.

Chain.io, a leader in managed software integration services, and developer of their state of the art supply chain connectivity platform has integrated SMC³'s less-than-truckload visibility technology into their cloud-based system.

To meet consumer demand for more convenient delivery options, many retailers have adopted the buy online and pick-up-in-store (BOPIS, or "click-and-collect") order fulfillment model.

10 methods to help increase, and potentially maximize the ROI of your TMS.

2018 is the first year XPO Logistics, a global provider of transport and logistics solutions and which operates as a highly integrated network of people, technology, and physical assets in 32 countries, has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies.

Certified Retail Solutions specializes in delivering high-quality systems and services to help retailers manage their national technology deployment and on-site maintenance needs.

New blockchain solution enables customers to build blockchain enabled multi-party apps and transact with trading partners over the blockchain.

One of the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry is reducing operating costs, and one area of opportunity for cost savings is through the supply chain.

Dan Clark, Founder and President of Kuebix, gives his annual vision of what he sees happening in the transportation and supply chain industry including; tax reforms, decreased capacity, higher rates, and digital transformation.

Your executives need data to make the right decisions, your workers need data to take the right actions, your trading partners need data to deliver the right inventory to the right place at the right time, and you can’t afford a single communications delay or disconnected data transmission.

Jump Start facilitates deeper knowledge and collaboration between logistics and transportation professionals from carrier, shipper, logistics service provider and technology verticals.

I get a kick reading “prediction” articles both prior to the year start and then again after the year is complete...when it comes to predicting the very dynamic supply chain management industry, those after year reviews can be quite amusing.

Creating a positive work environment can help your 3PL improve its operational performance.

With winter weather conditions harsh and another big storm hitting yesterday in various pockets of the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States, myriad motor carriers are gearing up for the most recent batch of bad weather.