Research

Annual growth for the third-party logistics (3PL) market in 2013 is expected to be north of 6 percent, with much of current market activity centered around mergers and acquisitions, according to Evan Armstrong, president of supply chain consultancy Armstrong & Associates.

The Logistics Management 2013 salary survey finds the highest salaries in logistics and supply chain management will be earned by those sticking to time-honored values: education, hard work, and company loyalty.

Global poll of over 1,000 executives reveals that the e-commerce giant is more admired than its Californian rival on all major supply chain attributes except innovation.

It isn’t “all about carbon”; it’s about water; land use; waste and pollutants. It’s about which raw materials are used and where they are sourced, from energy and water to metals, minerals and agricultural products, as risk increasingly varies according to location.

A Global Trade Management (GTM) solution is characterized by software and services that integrates and synchronizes the end-to-end global trading process. Spanning the services provided by point software solutions and logistics partners, next generation solutions must focus on providing business benefits across the entire international transaction. Enabled by new technologies based on open standards, the integration of legacy systems, and new web-based services, Global Trade Management will open information flows and enable new business strategies.

Manufacturing growth began 2013 on a strong note in January, according to the January Manufacturing report on Business from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity, was 53.1 in January, which tops December by 2.9 percent.

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.