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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.
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.
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.
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.
A newly independent International Foodservice Distributors Association plans to focus its efforts on federal government relations, industry relations and education, research, and standards and bar coding in the foodservice channel.
Only days after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that 95 percent of its voting members had voted to authorize a strike, the union and the nation's largest unionized motor carriers averted the threatened stoppage and agreed on a new five-year contract.
Many industry observers see auto ID as the breakthrough technology to watch the one that will forever change the way in which our supply chains operate.
In its first report of the year, the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute's Business Conditions Index contains some good news for those anxiously watching the economy.