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Terrorists' attacks on transportation systems have prompted the government to train its searchlights on the people who move goods by air, land, rail and sea.
Built on the site of an abandoned military airport, a DC run by PC Connection fulfills dreams of geeks everywhere by shipping everything from GPS-equipped PDAs to memory cards overnight.
And that's a good thing at least when you're talking about inventory. Today's CPFR programs can help trading partners throughout the supply chain reduce stocks while cutting logistics costs. So why haven't they caught on?
For some truck drivers, every work shift has become a race against the clock. New federal regs decree that their shifts end 14 hours after they begin no exceptions. And private fleets could be particularly hard hit.
If forecasting tomorrow's weather is that hard, then think of the challenge of trying to determine what you're going to sel and have to ship& over the next week, quarter or year.
Move aside, Alice. Restaurants that do business with a small regional supplier called Robert's Foods have almost unlimited menu choices thanks to a space-age ordering system called the Virtual Warehouse.