In this Issue:
- Quest for Quality Awards: Winners Revealed
- BMW's port collaboration
- Measuring Global Risk
- Lift truck battery management
- Quarterly Transportation Market Update: Air Cargo
Logistics Management Magazine Archives
August 2017 Logistics Management
August 30, 2017 · In an award-winning collaboration effort with a 3PL and TL partner, this global performance nutrition company has drastically reduced costs—all while improving service through and innovative “embedded” arrangement.
August 30, 2017 · Retailers committed to transforming their supply chains need to step back and look at their business model through a different lens.
August 30, 2017 · Distributed order management suppliers and users tout its ability to strengthen the customer experience through better ties to store-level systems to improve buy-online/pickup-in-store efforts and to empower store associates.
August 30, 2017 · While automated equipment at today’s warehouses can be at the heart of their success, any single piece of automation needs to be balanced with upstream and downstream processes, raising the importance of software to sync the flow of work and ensure the heart of the system keeps ticking.
August 29, 2017 · The global freight forwarding market has grown by 2.7% in real terms since this time last year, but owing to a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices, rates continue to fall in both air and sea freight. Forwarders now need to ramp up the value-add visibility services in an effort to boost revenues and keep shippers smiling.
August 29, 2017 · As global supply chains become more complex and customers more demanding, the race is on to develop software applications that can effectively manage and make sense of the zettabytes of data being generated by our digital world.
August 29, 2017 · This marks the 26th year that Logistics Management’s (LM) September issue has featured the findings of the “Annual Study of Logistics and Transportation Trends (Masters of Logistics),” the clearest picture available of transportation spending and utilization across all the modes.
August 28, 2017 · Mobile technologies are certainly changing how we track freight outside of the four walls, putting “real-time” logistics management within the grasp of many savvy shippers. However, our analysts content that we have more work to do in the areas of investment and integration into existing operations.
August 28, 2017 · This consumer-focused “cold chain”—temperature controlled supply chain—is only a recent example of a decades-long push to perfect a global system of item level tracking in supply chain management.
August 22, 2017 · The trend set over the past few years for mergers and acquisitions has hardly subsided, and a fresh injection of equity investment is transforming the marketplace. At the same time, shippers may expect to see 3PLs continue to purchase high-tech “solutions” and hire young professionals for implementation.
August 7, 2017 · Which carriers, third-party logistics providers, and North American ports have crossed the service excellence finish line ahead of their competitors? Our readers have cast their votes, and now it’s time to introduce this year’s winners of the coveted Quest for Quality Awards.
August 3, 2017 · BMW’s collaboration with South Carolina Ports and Norfolk Southern creates a unique intermodal solution that eliminates truck moves, improves its sustainability efforts and subsequently spurs manufacturing efficiently in a growing region.
August 3, 2017 · Measuring your threshold for risk has become more complicated than ever. However, industry analysts contend that we need to get better at it because concerns about cyber security, financial malfeasance, political exposure and climate change are here to stay.
August 3, 2017 · As fleet managers strive to optimize the usage and lifetime of batteries and chargers, they are embracing new approaches to battery and power management.
August 3, 2017 · While the continued growth of air cargo demand is consistent with an improvement in world trade, analysts now contend that the pressure is on the market to improve its value proposition by accelerating process modernization and enhancing customer service.
August 3, 2017 · This new generation of buyers and analysts will have more visibility into not only their own order status, but also to a rapidly evolving marketplace and the forces that are making an impact on costs and services globally.
August 3, 2017 · AsiaInspection (AI), a global provider of quality control services for businesses importing from the Pacific Rim, maintains that logistics managers should pay more attention to risk—irrespective of region.
August 3, 2017 · The White House’s budget blueprint, which was released in March, and the House Appropriations Committee’s proposed fiscal year 2018 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill share a common theme: both clearly state that it’s time to say goodbye to “the tiger.”
August 2, 2017 · The staff of Logistics Management (LM) is honored to present the logistics and transportation community with the results of the “34th Annual Quest for Quality Survey.”
August 2, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Air Carriers / Airfreight Forwarders
August 2, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Third-Party Logistics Carriers
August 2, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for global Ocean Carriers
August 2, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for global Port Authorities
August 2, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Rail/Intermodal
August 1, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Truckload Carriers
August 1, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Regional LTL (Less than Truckload) Carriers
August 1, 2017 · Learn about the 34th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for National/Multi-Regional LTL (Less than Truckload) Carriers
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