Logistics Management

Improvising visibility in logistics and supply chain operations is a top strategic imperative. Across the board, there is an overwhelming desire for better transparency to orders, inventory, and shipments across the extended supply chain. To achieve this goal, logistics and supply chain managers are looking to eliminate multiple spreadsheets, carrier tracking systems, and homegrown department-centric applications by using reliable information for strategic planning.  more >>

Globalization and outsourcing have forced shippers to improve their shipment accountability and tame their inbound and outbound transportation costs in regions of the world they may have never even visited. Learn about evolving applications and tools geared to better network and harness transportation and logistics data to help shippers manage these extended, distributed supply networks.  more >>

This complimentary webcast is designed to help logistics and supply chain managers determine if network optimization will produce a tangible benefit. Shippers will learn the realistic expectations of cost savings and how to conduct the exercise to obtain optimal savings.  more >>

This practical webcast will examine the power and potential of managed services. Our panel of experts will explain the concept and tell how it’s used in best-of-class companies. They’ll also offer an action plan to get you started on the road to a successful managed services experience.  more >>

Logistics Management’s 24th Annual Salary Survey reported this year that median logistics salaries remained pinned at $80,000 for the third straight year after a decade of steady growth. While this may not sound encouraging, the news is not all bad when it comes to your bottom line.  more >>

In this webcast you’ll learn from Ian Hobkirk of AberdeenGroup the tenets of a “Closed-loop Spend Management” program and the savings opportunities best-in-class companies have discovered. You’ll also hear from Gregg Bostick of Pinnacle how implementing a Closed-loop Spend Management program can result in double-digit freight bill savings.  more >>

Join Mike Levans and an all-star cast of industry analysts as they put the general economic picture into perspective for shippers and help explain the affect the economy is going to have on your trucking, rail, ocean, air, and parcel express rates in 2008.  more >>

Come join SAP for a Transportation Management for Business Network Transformation (BNT) Webcast. This 60-minute Webcast is an excellent opportunity to learn about SAP’s new Transportation Management (TM) system, and what Transportation Management software means in the larger BNT arena.  more >>

According to the results of our 2nd Annual Warehouse Operations Survey, the U.S. warehouse has most certainly entered an evolutionary process. From what we’re seeing, the warehouse is no longer a four-walled beast intended to store “mistakes” in forecasting—called inventory—but is now an entity morphing into a multi-faceted distribution center designed to better enable product flow, not storage.  more >>

The 2007 Global Supply Chain Conference featured a series of educational webcasts attracting logistics and supply chain managers responsible for the many facets of their companies’ global supply chain operations. Thought leaders and leading practitioners explore the full spectrum of supply chain management—from setting and executing global supply chain strategies to excelling at logistics management.  more >>