LEGACY Supply Chain Services

What makes Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, a different kind of leader is his recognition that any company today must see itself as part of a larger community, serving a universe of stakeholders far beyond its immediate shareholders.

“Tame Your Performance Chain” and offer five lessons from the animal kingdom to do just that – and boost performance – the focus is on operations and supply chain leaders - but these five lessons apply to any business.

Each year, the retailer names the best of the best out of more than 400 third party carriers servicing the company.

We told Mr. Walton that we were planning to build a new distribution center, he said, ‘great, I’d like to hear about it,’ he must have asked me 50 questions he wanted to know, he wanted to know every nuance and detail about the project.

Leaders from Teamster local unions that represent workers at YRC Worldwide Inc. (YRCW) overwhelmingly recommended to approve a tentative agreement and to send it out to the membership for a vote. The tentative agreement with YRCW, if ratified, will provide a pathway for substantial debt reduction and refinancing initiatives that will permit the company to protect and preserve more than 30,000 good American jobs.

So what's next for YRC? Whatever road YRC chooses, it’s clear that shippers and its own 26,000 Teamsters employees hold the key to long-term survival of the venerable 90-year-old company whose roots date to the golden age of trucking.

Labor represents two-thirds of the total cost of operating a warehouse. However, when an organization wants to improve its overall performance and profitability, processes and systems are typically the first to be attended to. While these are critical components to any company’s short and long-term success, consider the potential impact of a disengaged and inefficient work force.

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.

Survey Ties Transformation Success to Deft Handling of Cultural Issues.

We live in a time when talent management tools, the nature of work, and the needs and desires of the future workforce are all converging in a way that enable us to reimagine the ways we hire, train, manage and engage employees. Those that take advantage of this convergence will win the future.

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.

“Supply Chain Matters calls attention to what we would characterize as a rather disturbing account of the state of hiring practices in the lower tiers of high tech and consumer electronics supply chains. It is yet another reminder of the existing gaps in social responsibility practices in certain industry global supply chains.”

This year, 3PL CEOs, surveyed in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions, are generally optimistic about company and industry growth prospects over the next one and three-year periods. North American and European CEOs forecasted higher three year company revenue growth projections than last year, 14.6 percent and 10.3 percent, respectively.

The State of the American Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for U.S. Business Leaders report highlights findings from Gallup’s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012.

Focusing on tactics that will increase a supply chain’s productivity is essential to achieving positive customer satisfaction. There are some very effective ways to do this outside of systems, logistical infrastructure and analytics.