Operations & Strategy
Operations & Strategy monitors trends and best practices in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Purchasing/Sourcing, Inventory Management, Risk Management, Inventory Management, and Performance Measures.
Green Retail Initiatives Drive Cost Savings
Green retail initiatives drive down costs and catalyze customer loyalty. Best-in-class performers achieve top-line revenue growth and bottom-line cost savings, says survey...
Reconnecting With Your Network
The rush to reduce costs in manufacturing and procurement fueled a surge in outsourcing and offshoring over the last decade that has almost taken on a life of its own...
CSCMP Conference Date Approaching
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' Annual Global Conference will take place October 5-8 at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado...
Transport Intelligence Reports: Manugistics Parent Acquires i2
A former class leader in the supply chain software sector, i2 Technologies, has been bought by JDA Software Group, the US company which owns Manugistics, for $346m...
Too Many Big Ships May Mean Excess Capacity
Authoritative Drewry Shipping Consultants says that too much emphasis is being placed by the liner shipping industry on the current strength of European-Far East trade lanes...
Law Suit Attacks LA/Long Beach Port Trucking Plans
The Concession Plan is aimed at limiting access only to trucking companies on the ports’ Drayage Truck Registry. These regulations are part of port management’s “Clean Truck Program” that seeks to significantly reduce air emissions...
Rail Safety Could Spell Shipper Costs
The rail safety bill appears likely to pass Congress by year end. It includes hours-of-service changes, inspection requirements and hazardous materials safety issues...
Cross-Border Controversy: Cancelled or Continued?
Four days after Congressional moves were made to end the contentious demonstration program, the Department of Transportation announced a two-year extension of it...
How the Biosecurity Program Works
Originally developed for Cargill, another NationaLease customer, the proprietary automated system was customized to meet specific PIC USA requirements...
Why is this pig smiling?
Changing third party suppliers paid off with safer and more humane delivery for this leading supplier of pork breeding stock...
DHL Appoints Hickler to Global Customer Solutions
DHL announced the appointment of Hans Hickler as Chief Executive Officer for its Global Customer Solutions (GCS) organization, responsible for the customer relationship management of the group’s largest customers worldwide...
Schneider Logistics Grows Its Network
The new Regional Logistics Center (RLC) in Toronto is its first outside the US. The expanded brokerage service in Canada is part of a move begun with the opening of a Schneider Logistics RLC in 2005...
Outsourcing to a Sustainable 3PL
Corporate sustainability has recently gained significant traction in both the public and private sectors evidenced by the environmental marketing campaigns of Wal-Mart and British Petroleum, recent Nobel Prize recipients and increased venture capital funding for sustainable business services...
10 Steps to Take for Fuel Savings
No need to be reminded that oil prices are higher than ever. Although some of these ideas may be familiar, if even one is effectively applied, real dollars may be saved...
Con-way Inc. Shows Quarterly Growth
Logistics operations were not as healthy as other divisions, including the less-than-truckload (LTL) unit for this $4.7 billion freight transportation and logistics services company...
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