Our Quarterly Review of Truckload, LTL and Rail Results; 3M Battles Supply Chain Hairballs; Labor Showdown at Cat Plant in Joliet, IL; plus the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

VoiceExpress from Vocollect Leverages Existing RF Transactions to Enable Voice Applications in the WMS

Rail Carrier Profits Continue to Soar on Modest Volume Growth; LTL Sector Continues Struggles, but Conway Joins Old Dominion in Showing Strong Profits

Decision Cheered by Business Groups, but Victory on Technical Grounds Likely to be Short-Lived

Super High Levels of Inventory Accuracy become Necessary to Commit and Fulfill Multi-Channel Orders

VICS OrganizationNew Report Could Usher Groundbreaking Model for Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain

Move Can Lower Inventories, but are Labor Inefficiencies Worth It?

It is a Mercantilist World, Not a Free Trade One, Former IBM Exec Says; Tax Incentives and Smart Tariff Policies Could Work

Longshoremen Union has Signed Off on Need to Move to Future, Eliminating a Major Obstacle to Automation

Some Expect Another Firm to Make a Higher Bid; How Solutions will be Rationalized not Clear