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The value of supply chain visibility goes beyond customer satisfaction, as important as that may be. It also enables managers to shift their inventory and transportation modes if needed to respond to changing circumstances.
America's sclerotic transportation network is already creating delays and backups during peak shipping periods. So what will happen when the rising tide of low-cost Asian imports hits our shores?
Science now has documented what most of us have long suspected—that e-mail, instant messaging and the like so distract us that they quite literally diminish intelligence.
It used to be as easy as picking up the phone. But these days, finding a trucker to move your freight calls for creativity, flexibility and all the powers of persuasion you can muster.
Everyone who has worked in a DC is familiar with the problem: pallets and cases come pouring into the facility faster than you can unpack them, clogging the aisles and slowing operations even further.
First they wanted your parcel business. Then all they went after ground freight and international business. Now the companies best known for moving small packages have become big-time players in third-party logistics.
The first time someone mentioned the Traveling Salesman Problem to me, I figured it had something to do with those ribald jokes I used to hear when I was young.
Deregulators may have won the election, but that doesn't mean Washington isn't cooking up lots of new rules that will have a direct effect on your business.
Rubbing shoulders with members of a middlemen's trade group may seem an unlikely way to get an insider's view of the political process, but the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, or NAW, isn't just any trade association.
As a long-time political junkie, i was delighted to receive an invitation to the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors? annual executive summit in Washington, D.C., this year.