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Everything's changed in 20 years; yet nothing's changed in 20 years. Veteran DC consultant Ken Ackerman may rhapsodize about the potential of technology, but in the end, he says, the business is still all about the effective management of space and time.
Unfazed by its worst recession in 40 years and emerging threats from Malaysia and China, Singapore has launched a full-bore drive to become the distribution hub for all of Asia.
don't break glass or even break a sweat it won't help. Do train your drivers to collect facts and take photos at the scene and resist the temptation to engage in incriminating babble with the highway patrol.
Five years ago, nothing much came between the Calvin Klein Cosmetics DC and a looming operational disaster. But a flashy pick-to-light system brought some much-needed direction to the order pickers' daily rounds.
For DCs that handle electronic products, it's not enough just to deliver the goods at warp speed. They also have to add value and oversee a mysterious process called distributed order fulfillment.
No company can go it alone. But if you depend on a complex network of suppliers and service providers, the only way to make it all work is through collaboration.
DHL announced last month that it had agreed to acquire Airborne Inc., parent company of the third-largest parcel express carrier in the United States, Airborne Express.
The FDA and members of the U.S. Congress have proposed security rules and legislation that would have serious effects on transportation and distribution.
Danzas says it has forged a direct two-way link with the U.S. Customs Service for the automated filing of ocean manifest data 24 hours before goods are placed aboard vessels bound for U.S. ports.
For the first time in the 13 years Colography Group has tracked international shipping rates, ocean shipping will grow faster than air shipping in 2003, the research firm predicts.
With the launch of war in Iraq, the question of how to provide homeland security once again came under the spotlight, and the nation's transportation and distribution system once again took center stage.
The team from Pennsylvania State University took first place honors and $2,000 in prize money at the recent International Graduate Logistics Case Competition held in Chicago.
MCL Technologies and Vocollect are developing unique software products combining Vocollect's Talkman voice technology with the MCLCollection software suite.
In hopes of reducing errors made in administering medications at hospitals, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing a new bar-code requirement.
More than 60 percent of retail companies expect a significant increase in their expenditures on CRM during the next two years, according to the CRMretail Survey.
A recent survey of logistics professionals finds that although the term has been in common use for nearly a decade, most definitions of "supply chain management" have surprisingly little in common.
Sony specifically, Sony Disc Manufacturing (SDM),the Optical Disc Division has concentrated in recent years on building a reputation as a strong supply chain leader in the delivery of its products and services.
It is incumbent on distribution managers and executives to keep abreast of proposals and to let government regulators understand what tougher rules could really mean to their businesses and to the economy.