Recent News from Outsourced Logistics
Family Express Strengthens Supplier Relations through Automation
Family Express, a chain of convenience stores and fueling centers with 52 retail locations, is pursuing operational supply chain efficiencies and productivity gains via the automation of traditional human processes with Osiris Innovations Group (OIG), a provider of supply chain management and supplier enablement solutions...
YRC Reports Loss of $899 Million for 2009
YRC Worldwide has reported a pre-tax loss of $899 million for the full year 2009, which compares to a pre-tax loss in 2008 of $1.14 billion. For the fourth quarter of 2009, the company announced pre-tax income of $50 million, compared to a loss of $353 million for the comparable quarter in 2008...
Con-way Reports Net Loss of $110 Million for 2009
Trucking and logistics company Con-way has reported a net loss of $110.9 million for 2009. Revenues for the year declined to $4.27 billion from $5.04 billion in 2008, primarily reflecting the effect of weak pricing driven by surplus trucking industry capacity...
CN Plans $100-million Logistics Park in Calgary
Canadian National Railway (CN) plans to establish a new $100-million CN Calgary Logistics Park. The 680-acre park will include an intermodal terminal with room for customers to co-locate with CN and custom build their facility in place...
Outlook Points to Higher Truck and Trailer Sales in 2011
A stronger demand for freight will result in higher truck rates and better financial results for truckers in 2010 and higher truck and trailer sales in 2011. Meanwhile, 2010 tractor sales will be affected by the new EPA mandate, with higher sales in the first half and a second-half slowdown likely...
Toll Group Acquires Summit Logistics
Australian-based Toll Group has acquired Summit Logistics International, a U.S.-based independent freight forwarding and supply chain business. The acquisition will allow Toll Group to offer a more extensive domestic deliver-to-customer capability, from China to all major city destinations in the U.S...
Blockbuster Rolls Out Execution Management Solution
Blockbuster is using RedPrairie’s Execution Management and Workforce Management to provide store-specific communication, gather store data and provide store on-time compliance data to all levels of the organization...
3PL Taps Logistics Network to Monitor Security of Shipments
Colombia’s Integrated Control and Logistics Services is leveraging an intelligence service and GPS technology from Savi to enhance visibility and control of tens of thousands of customer shipments...
Mr. President: It’s the trade deficit stupid!
The economy is growing again, notes Professor Peter Morici, but instead of coming up with new tax-the-rich and spend policies, President Obama should recognize the economic recovery simply won’t create enough jobs to drive down unemployment, because his administration has not addressed the trade deficit...
Asia-Pacific Eclipses North America as Largest Aviation Market
In 2009 intra-Asia-Pacific travel eclipsed the number of travelers in North America as the world’s largest aviation market. Asia-Pacific’s travelers numbered 647 million compared to the 638 million who travelled within North America. By 2013 an additional 217 million travelers are expected to take to the skies within Asia-Pacific...
Wal-Mart Launches New Global Sourcing Program
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has created a consolidated global sourcing structure centered around new Global Merchandising Centers (GMCs). This new structure is expected to leverage the company’s global scale in both general merchandise categories and global food sourcing...
Carbon Management Is Key to Selecting Suppliers
Carbon Management Is Key to Selecting Suppliers Promo teaser (brief summary): Suppliers are expected by some of their global customers to demonstrate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions management, awareness and action, in order to maintain business relationships, according to a Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report produced by global consulting firm A.T. Kearney...
Seven Supply Chain Subjects to Monitor in 2010
A number of potential issues loom that can disrupt global supply chains, sourcing strategies and the flow of working capital. If not properly addressed, importers and exporters may face significant unexpected costs and increased disruptions to their supply chain. But the news for 2010 isn’t all bad. A number of promising opportunities exist as well...
Backtalk: Get Your Returns Rate Under Control
Although seven percent of all retail products are returned, many of those returns aren’t as inevitable as you might think. In fact, some are actually quite avoidable. Getting your reverse logistics process under control just takes using your last-mile process and professionals a little more proactively, and steering clear of some misguided thinking...
American Airlines Expands Frequent Cargo Program
American Airlines Cargo Division (AA Cargo) has redesigned its Business ExtrAA program, which allows nearly all cargo customers to earn travel awards for booking cargo shipments. For every shipment on American Airlines, eligible AA Cargo customers can earn points that can be redeemed for travel-related awards...
JDA Completes Acquisition of i2 Technologies
JDA Software Group Inc. has completed the acquisition of supply chain software provider i2 Technologies Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $604 million...
Georgetown Consulting Forms Fourth Party Reverse Logistics
Georgetown Consulting has expanded its core practice in supply chain management by forming Fourth Party Reverse Logistics (4PRL) and acquiring partial ownership of TBW Solutions of Alpharetta, Ga...
Railroads to Receive $8 Billion in Federal Grants
The Obama Administration plans to award $8 billion in federal grants to 31 states for high-speed and intercity passenger rail projects...
FedEx Launches International DirectDistribution
New service from FedEx optimizes supply chain efficiencies by consolidating multiple packages or freight into one shipment...
TNT Express Deploys RFID Solution to Improve European Operations
TNT Express has deployed an RFID solution from AeroScout to automate its inventory management. The solution is designed to help TNT improve operations and prevent delivery delays by optimizing the inventory management of 16,000 assets across 200 depots in 29 European countries...
Dow and Menlo Open New DC in Michigan
The Dow Chemical Company and Menlo Worldwide Logistics have opened a new 134,000-square-foot warehousing and distribution operation in Bay City, Mich. The facility will provide strategic warehousing and distribution services for Dow Wolff Cellulosics products. Dow and Menlo also designed a new transportation management program for inbound and outbound freight shipments...
US Air Force Taps ODIN to Monitor and Maintain RFID Network
The US Air Force Global Logistics Support Center has selected ODIN to monitor and maintain its entire network of passive RFID readers deployed in the United States. The contract scope covers seven Air Force bases, one Navy base and nearly 150 passive RFID readers...
Logistics Rises to the Occasion in Haiti
How would you react if your local airport wasn’t just closed down for a day due to inclement weather, but indefinitely? How would you deal with inbound and outbound logistics if the one major seaport in your supply chain was utterly destroyed? How would you cope with a catastrophe that took the lives of more than 100,000 people...
Auto Group Promotes New Way to Handle Supply Chain Information
The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) has developed a cloud computing platform to handle automotive supply chain information. The group believes this system could help reduce transportation costs by $1.7 billion dollars over the next five years and support national security objectives as well...
Global Air Freight Suffers Worst Demand Decline in History
Demand statistics for international scheduled air traffic showed the industry ended 2009 with the largest ever post-war decline, according to IATA. Air freight showed a full-year decline of 10.1% with an average load factor of 49.1%...
System Logistics Merges with Diamond Phoenix
Diamond Phoenix and System Logistics have merged and the company will now operate under the name System Logistics Corp. As a full service systems integrator, the company will provide intelligent design and material handling equipment implementation, advanced software and order fulfillment technologies...
Import Traffic Best in Two Years at Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is reporting the first increases in monthly container cargo numbers in two years. Imported cargo increased by more than 13% in December 2009 from the same time period a year ago, and exports jumped by more than 30%...
IATA and DHS Agree On Aviation Security Cooperation
At a recent summit on aviation security, the International Air Transport Association recommended institutionalizing government/industry cooperation. This, IATA says, would allow security policies to be written with the benefit of airline operational expertise...
Spot Freight Availability Doubles in December
Spot market freight availability on TransCore load boards in December 2009 rose by 103% year over year, to twice the level achieved in the same month of 2008. Freight volume also exceeded November levels by 11% on the North American spot market...
Harsco Selects IBM for Global Supply Chain Initiative
Industrial services company Harsco Corp. has selected IBM as its consulting partner for a business transformation initiative designed to create significant operating and cost efficiencies throughout Harsco’s global supply chain...
Truck-Involved Fatality Rate Drops 12 Percent
The truck-involved fatality rate in 2008 declined 12.3% to 1.86 per 100 million miles from 2.12 per 100 million miles in 2007. This decline marks the largest year-to-year drop and the fifth consecutive year the fatality rate has improved...
The Message from Massachusetts
Scott Brown’s election to the U.S. Senate serves notice that Americans don’t want big government policies championed by liberal Democrats, says Professor Peter Morici. It is not a mandate for Republican tax cuts and deregulation. Rather, from health care to the economy, Democrats should stop accusing critics of deceiving the public and ask what voters would embrace...
Global Container Freight Rates Are Increasing
Average global container freight rates were up 18% between July and September 2009, and rose by another 6% between September and November 2009, according to consulting firm Drewry. However, recent average global freight rates in late 2009 were still about 20% below the peak of 2007...
Con-way Freight Cuts Transit Times to 460 U.S. Destinations
LTL carrier Con-way Freight has launched a major network re-engineering that will cut transit times by one day to 460 U.S. destinations, while decreasing the company’s carbon footprint...
AirLink Joins Aidmatrix to Coordinate Haitian Earthquake Relief
Aidmatrix is partnering with ISTAT’S AirLink to help facilitate the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid for the Haitian earthquake. AirLink will use the Aidmatrix Network’s technology to connect airline capacity to humanitarian need while connecting the ISTAT membership with the hundreds of NGOs currently posting transportation needs on the network...
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