Recent News from Outsourced Logistics
2009 Was the Safest Year Ever for Freight Railroads
The year 2009 was the safest year in freight railroad history. Preliminary year-end data indicate the train accident rate, employee casualty rate and grade crossing incident rates were all at record low levels last year...
Schneider Rolls Out In-Cab Technology
Motor carrier Schneider National has equipped 25% of its fleet with driver in-cab technology, and is on pace to convert all of its existing in-cab technology to a new system by this fall...
Caterpillar Shifts from Offshoring to Onshoring Back to the U.S.A.
Caterpillar Inc. has undertaken a study that could lead to a new hydraulic excavator facility being built in the United States, as part of the growing trend toward onshoring—bringing production work back to the United States to reduce global supply chain management costs. Such a move significantly increase Caterpillar’s employment in the U.S. dedicated to excavator production...
Smart Software Awarded Grant to Study Intermittent Demand Forecasting
Smart Software Inc., has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to extend and improve its current intermittent demand forecasting solution by developing an advanced proprietary method. The new research will aim to improve demand forecasting and planning of service/spare parts...
Team 3 Logistics Launches to Serve Auto Industry
Kenco Logistic Services LLC (KLS), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kal-Serv, has partnered with Schnellecke of America LLC to form Team 3 Logistics LLC. This new joint venture will offer logistic solutions to support automotive production in the Southeastern United States...
Retail Container Traffic Could Be Up 13 Percent in March
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be up 13% in March 2010 compared with the same month a year ago, and double-digit increases are expected to continue through the summer as the U.S. economy begins in improve...
Economy Is Top Priority for Consumer Goods Companies
Consumer goods manufacturers have a very different opinion about the importance of retail-supplier relations compared to their retailer customers. Retailers rank retail-supplier relations, which covers such issues as trade costs, pricing and collaboration, as only the eighth-most important priority, while manufacturers rank it second...
Industrial Real Estate Market Is Still Way Down
Overall industrial demand for real estate remains weak and occupancy losses in many markets during 2009 could prolong the length of the industrial down cycle. However, increased import activity is helping demand at gateway cities and interior supply network hubs...
How to Enhance Your Supply Chain Visibility
Visibility is critical in optimizing and improving the performance of your supply chain. Ryder’s Control Tower facilitates the centralized collection and distribution of part and SKU level data with an emphasis on visibility and proactive exception management...
Saint-Gobain Streamlines Supply Chain Transactions
Saint-Gobain Corp., a building materials manufacturer and distributor, will use a Sterling Commerce solution to integrate ERP systems and automate business processes among its customers and suppliers with the aim of achieving enhanced productivity, improved supply chain management and a stronger competitive edge...
RFID Market to Hit $5.35 Billion in 2010
The market for RFID technology will continue to see steady growth for at least the next five years, as new “modernizing” applications come to the fore...
Obama’s Economic Policies Are Out to Sea
Continuing job losses indicate President Obama’s stimulus spending and support for the banks have failed to turn the economy around, observes economist Peter Morici. Eight months into the much touted recovery, the economy should be adding jobs not losing jobs at a slower pace. No study of economic history could yield a conclusion other than that the U.S. economy is in danger of falling into a double dip recession...
Swissport Deploys Dimensioning Systems Across Global Network
Thanks to a partnership between Swissport International, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, and technology provider FreightScan, Swissport is installing automated dimensioning systems in facilities across its global network, offering an enhanced level of cargo handling services to airlines...
Old Dominion Opens Free Trade Zone Facility in Southeast
LTL carrier Old Dominion Freight Line has opened a new warehouse facility that also will headquarter its OD-Warehousing and Distribution Services Division, in Thomasville, N.C. The new warehouse facility includes an established Free Trade Zone...
Georgia Ports Expands Refrigerated Cargo Volume
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has added a new set of electrified refrigerated container racks, and can now accommodate 1,056 containers. The expansion will also reduce diesel fuel consumption...
Supply Chains Are Putting Down Greener Roots
Green is the movement of the day for supply chains, as companies are utilizing techniques such as designing a building so that it significantly reduces the amount of water needed for operation, or locating a site so that it does not disturb any nearby wetlands, soil or streams...
LeSaint Logistics and Royal Chemical Launch Supply Chain Service
LeSaint Logistics and Royal Chemical are teaming up to provide a closed loop chemical solution, combining the capabilities of manufacturing, warehousing, inventory fulfillment and transportation...
Con-way Freight Reduces Accident Frequency Rate by 13 Percent
Con-way Freight has announced that 2009 was its best year for safety since 2003. The LTL carrier reduced its accident frequency rate and earned more than 70 industry safety awards in 2009...
Companies Seek Ways Out of the Regulatory Compliance Money Pit
Growing global concern over environmental and safety issues is spinning a global web of trade and security programs that impact both importers and exporters, and both products and their movement. Nearly half of supply chain professionals are supporting their internal regulatory compliance departments with external resources...
American Airlines Opens Cargo Facility at JFK Airport
American Airlines Cargo Division (AA Cargo) has opened its newly relocated cargo terminal at JFK International Airport in New York. The facility offers more than 135,000 square feet of warehouse space and 24 dock doors...
Top 10 Predictions for Global Supply Chains
Companies will evolve from a fixed-cost-driven supply network to a variable-cost-driven value network...
Which Are Greener: Trains or Trucks?
In some cases, motor carriers are more fuel efficient than railroads...
Marsh Supermarkets Adopts Promotion Optimization Technology
Midwest supermarket chain Marsh Supermarkets is partnering with Revionics to better price and promote based on advanced pricing analytics and scenario planning technology...
UPS Opens New Distribution Center in Calgary
UPS has opened a new distribution center at the Calgary International Airport (YYC) to provide businesses with direct access to the U.S. and international markets. The $30 million facility is designed to expedite international shipments...
Clean Energy Expands Network of LNG Truck Fueling Stations
Clean Energy Fuels plans to expand its existing network of LNG truck fueling stations in Southern California this year beyond the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports complex. New or upgraded fueling facilities are planned for strategic points along truck transport routes in various California cities, as part of the company’s plans to expand throughout the Southwestern United States...
Freight Rates Are Stabilizing in Canada
According to the Canadian General Freight Index, although the cost of ground transportation for Canadian shippers declined by 9.6% since December of 2008, freight costs appear to be stabilizing in early 2010...
Logistics Expert Tom Mentzer Passes Away
John T. (Tom) Mentzer, noted logistics expert at the University of Tennessee, has passed away...
Walmart Plans to Clean Up Its Global Supply Chain
Walmart has announced its goal to eliminate 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its global supply chain. The retailer will work with its suppliers to reduce their energy use, costs and carbon footprint...
What Did They Know, and When Did They Know It?
Can you imagine Coke hauling Pepsi into court, or Microsoft conducting an investigation into Apple’s practices, or Target issuing subpoenas against Wal-Mart? Hard as it is to imagine those scenarios, that’s pretty much exactly what’s happening right now in the case of the U.S. Government vs. Toyota...
Tax on Warehouses Will Drive Away Jobs, Says IWLA
The International Warehouse Logistics Association has told Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell that his proposal to impose a 4% sales tax on warehouse services would drive jobs out of Pennsylvania by making it more difficult for warehouse operators there to compete with similar businesses in surrounding states...
Barcode Scanning Helps Salvation Army Distribute Goods Throughout Haiti
The Salvation Army is replacing handwritten paper index cards with high-tech barcode technology to ensure that more than 4,000 families here efficiently receive food, shelter and medical supplies. UPS has donated the technology and adapted it for disaster relief supply distribution...
Gunther Mele Improves Customer Service with TMS
Gunther Mele, a supplier of brand-building packaging solutions to North America’s retail industry, has deployed Descartes’ Transportation Management solution to help it process and manage its outbound courier and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments...
Germany Tops the List of Logistics Performers
Germany is the top performer among the 155 economies ranked in the Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI), according to a global survey of international freight forwarders and express carriers. The United States ranks at number 15 on the list...
RedPrairie Is Acquired by New Mountain, Cancels IPO
RedPrairie Holding, Inc., a provider of warehouse management and other supply chain software solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by a fund affiliated with New Mountain Capital, L.L.C., a private equity firm. As a result of the acquisition, RedPrairie will no longer pursue an initial public offering, which had been announced last fall. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed...
Obama’s Budget Task Force Is Clever Politics but Poor Leadership
Instead of drafting a responsible budget, President Obama is seeking to force Republicans to endorse wasteful spending and higher taxes, or be cast as obstructionists, says economist Peter Morici. Instead of blaming George Bush and indulging in sparkling oratory, our constitutional law professor and now president should seek a brief tutorial from White House economic advisor Lawrence Summers on GDP, employment and international trade...
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