JF Hillebrand, a logistics provider to the global beverage industry, has named Menlo Worldwide to provide logistics and customs brokerage in Singapore for whiskey distiller William Grant and Sons.
What is "Goods-to-Person," and how can it be of value in boosting the efficiency of fulfillment operations within warehouses and distribution centers? A briefing by Mark Dickinson, executive sales manager with SSI Schaefer.
David J. Closs, McConnell Professor of Business Administration at Michigan State University, says that cross-functional experience and training are essential to developing superior supply chain talent and explains why competition for that talent is increasing.
Recent Intermec research reveals that in the last six months alone, 79 percent of warehouse managers have been tasked with finding an average 19-percent cost saving from existing operations. Despite this mounting pressure to cut costs and the need to find efficiency gains in every process, managers admit to losing time and money through known inefficient workflows.
The reshoring of manufactured goods from Asia to North America is bound to take some import business away from U.S. ports. But there are other developing threats to the continued dominance of gateways like Los Angeles-Long Beach - specifically, a couple of upstarts to the north and south.
When many doubted needed HIV/AIDS commodities could be delivered timely and qualitatively to hard-to-reach areas of Africa, an innovative approach to healthcare logistics proved them wrong.
Late or inaccurate deliveries can have a major negative impact on consumers' future decisions to shop with a retailer online, by phone, or in the store, according to a study released by Voxware.