Resources

Kurt Salmon and GT Nexus surveyed retail executives to assess their goals and confidence levels for supply chain visibility and fulfillment; our survey report identifies specific areas of improvement that can deliver significant ROI.

How to Lower Costs, Increase Reliability, and Strengthen Your Supply Chain.

Big data’s potential just keeps growing, taking full advantage means companies must incorporate analytics into their strategic vision and use it to make better, faster decisions, this paper helps organizational leaders understand the potential impact of data and analytics.

When supply chain professionals discuss supply chain execution, their focus is typically put on transportation management systems and warehouse management systems, the yard management systems capability and importance is mistakenly undervalued.

The race to master complexity in the digital age demands a winning formula of visibility, data analytics and agility, download this eBook and find out how to avoid complexity getting in the way of success.

This white paper covers best practices for building a portfolio of trade agreement programs to reduce the cost of purchase parts in your supply network.

E-business-centred new entrants and new online platforms are starting to convert customers and change how companies buy and transact international shipping services, are freight forwarders at threat of being cast aside, and what are the fundamental changes driven by technology and market conditions?

Container shipping remains remarkably fragmented, with the top five operators accounting for less than half the global market, and this presents considerable opportunity for further consolidation.

In this report, we analyse how three distinct categories of operators working across the global supply chain (e-commerce companies, container shippers and freight forwarders) are increasingly competing (or collaborating) with each other as industry boundaries are redefined.

Amazon Business is a major threat to B2B distributors, but large distributors still have time to take action and come out ahead once the dust settles, and to succeed, distributors must embrace the new marketplace platform business model that Amazon also employs.

From our roots as a courier service in the 1960s, we know that sharing is not new, what is new are the tools and attitudes with which people are sharing: smartphones and mobile technologies combined with shifting societal values are allowing companies with new business models to proliferate at unprecedented speed, scale, and valuation.

This 12th edition of The Global Risks Report is published at a time of heightened political uncertainty, following a year of unexpected electoral results, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom, deepening generational and cultural divisions are amplifying the risks associated with sluggish economic recovery and accelerating technological changes.

In today’s competitive Third Party and Logistics industry, any 3PL WMS worth your investment should contain these 7 Traits.

With the unprecedented growth of the warehouse and logistics industry, evaluating your business becomes critical when looking to compete and increase your customer-base.

How 3PL Warehouses Can Maximize Productivity and Profits.

In this eBook, you will learn 6 steps to help grow your business by maximizing the assets you may already have on-hand and learning what tools you need to grow.

In this eBook, we’ll look at a more modern and accurate way of approaching routing cost.

Take a deep dive into the minds of the 1,500 U.S. industrial products buyers UPS surveyed for their third Industrial Buying Dynamics study, the study’s white paper examines the major forces shaping industrial distribution today.

This paper includes a detailed description and definition of Industry 4.0 and how it is being driven by digitisation and integration of vertical and horizontal value chains, digitization of product and service offerings and the development of new digital business models and customer access platforms.

As the transportation and logistics industry morphs, traditional rivals will no longer be the sole or even the most threatening competition, incumbents must adapt to keep up with their customers.