For this year's Supply Chain Innovation Award, first place goes to Ahold USA and its partners - ES3 and Del Monte Foods - for a distribution system that streamlines order-to-store deliveries from days to hours.

ADT Security Systems joins with Inmar Reverse Logistics to revamp the company's method for the receipt, management and disposition of returned parts, an opportunity that it had previously overlooked.

A conversation with Edgar Blanco, research and executive director, SCALE Latin America, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.