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October 30, 2012

Logistics News: Carrier Bid Optimization Tools Continue to Deliver Significant Savings on Freight Spend

Manual Analysis Simply Cannot Compare with Using an Optimization Engine to Identify Best Combination of Carriers and Lanes

TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Transportation Management Systems | Transportation | Trucking

October 30, 2012

Supply Chain News: Could Low Natural Gas Prices Drive Manufacturing Renaissance in Midwest?

Chemicals, Fertilizers and Other Sectors Finding Midwest will be Low Cost Region; A Virtuous Cycle Developing?

TOPICS : Manufacturing | Supply chain costs | Supply Chain Trends

October 29, 2012

Video Supply Chain News for Oct. 29, 2012

Research on Ocean Shipping Variability from MIT; Walmart Tightening the Screws on Suppliers for Sustainability Index Program; Rust Belt Revival? plus, the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

TOPICS : VideoNews

October 24, 2012

Supply Chain News: Deep Vendor Collaboration Pays Big Dividends for Coffee Machine Maker Wilbur Curtis

Key Supplier Becomes Extension of Company Engineering Group, Helps Get Products to Market Faster

TOPICS : Collaboration | Procurement/Supplier Management

October 24, 2012

Logistics News: Dynamics Continue in the Parcel Shipping Market

Domestic and Global Shippers Continue to Move to Slower, Less Expensive Services; Rapid Growth at UPS and FedEx in Services Offered in Partnership with US Post Office

TOPICS : e-fulfillment | ecommerce | Logistics costs | Logistics | Parcel shipping/parcel systems | Transportation

October 23, 2012

Global Logistics News: MIT Research Puts Some Real Data Behind Ocean Shipping Variability

Lots of Complaints, but Little Data to Date; Delays Come at Ports, not Over the Water, Caplice and Kalkanci Says at CSCMP

TOPICS : Global logistics | Global supply chain | Logistics | Ocean carriers | Transportation Management Systems

October 23, 2012

Supply Chain News: Research Says Better Performing Distribution and Transportation Organizations have Better Software

Chief Supply Chain Officer Insights Finds Companies Saying they are Functionally Effective are Much More Likely to Rate Their Software Capabilities as High

TOPICS : Distribution | Supply Chain Execution (SCE) | Supply chain software | Transportation Management Systems | Transportation | Warehouse Mananagement Systems

October 22, 2012

Supply Chain Video News for Oct. 22, 2012

Supply Chain Execution Technology Benchmark Report; More in the E-Commerce Delivery Wars; The US Wins Important Trade Ruling Against China; plus, the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

TOPICS : VideoNews


October 17, 2012

Supply Chain News: Bold Plan for Virtually Integrated Steel Mill Goes Bust, Could Cost ThyssenKrupp Billions

How Could Decision Have Gone Wrong So Fast? Candidate for Addition to Greatest Supply Chain Disasters of All-Time

TOPICS : Manufacturing | Supply chain risk | Supply chain strategy