Reverse Logistics

How Supply Chain Became the 'Truth-Teller' at Johnson & Johnson

June 24, 2013

Eight p.m. in the "war room" of Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems: 150 people from all over the world are on a conference call. The topic is a supply outage of trocars, a medical device used in microscopic surgery. Someone on the line, clearly untroubled by the crisis, speaks up. "It's just a trocar," he says.

Dell & Mondelez: Making Vested Outsourcing Work Well Beyond Expectations!

June 13, 2013

Kate Vitasek, Faculty, Center for Executive Education, The Univ. of Tennessee

Kenco Offers Dashboards to Measure Supply-Chain Sustainability

June 12, 2013

Kenco

Kenco, a third-party logistics services provider, has developed a set of dashboards to measure companies' sustainability efforts in their distribution, transportation and supply-chain activities.

Returns Management Strategy: Recapture Revenue

June 6, 2013

Purolator

A well-managed returns process will enable a business to get ahead of the game

SEC's New Rule on Conflict Minerals: Clarity and Confusion

June 3, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The fog is beginning to clear. High-tech and other types of manufacturers are getting a better idea of what they must do in order to conform to new requirements for disclosing the presence in their products of conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring states. Still, a number of questions remain unanswered.

JDA Issues New Version of Transportation & Logistics Management App

May 7, 2013

JDA Software Group Inc.

JDA Software Group Inc. has released a new version of JDA Transportation & Logistics Management, the vendor's transportation-management system (TMS) software.

GT Nexus Wraps Up Merger with TradeCard

May 1, 2013

GT Nexus

GT Nexus has completed its merger with TradeCard. The combined company, with headquarters in Oakland, Calif., is operating under the GT Nexus name.

Evolution of the Retail Consumer and How Supply Chains Must Adapt

April 30, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Consumers today want the ability to purchase and return products via any channel, at any time, at the best price. To meet those expectations, companies that traditionally have had disparate fulfillment models must now merge both the informational and operational aspects of those models into one, says Todd Peters, CEO and vice chairman of GENCO.

Food Safety: It's All About the Supply Chain

April 29, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

As tainted-food scandals go, it wasn't so bad. The discovery early this year of unlabeled horse meat in European food products wasn't for the most part a safety issue. It was a violation of cultural norms, to be sure, as well as a truth-in-packaging problem. Most of all, it was a supply-chain failure.

North America's 50 Most Successful 3PLs

April 24, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Whatever logistics services you need, our list of 50 providers based in North America can provide Class-A operations for you - anywhere in the world.

Reverse Logistics

The latest news, analysis, services and systems regarding reverse logistics and its impact on global supply chains. Today’s companies are refurbishing and recycling more goods and managing more product returns than ever before thanks, in part, to the boom in e-commerce. New technologies for reverse fulfillment are transforming the way companies provide customer support - and allowing them to stay ahead of the competition in their industries. As these services continue to evolve, businesses are discovering new ways to increase efficiency and cut costs. Learn how companies are using reverse logistics solutions to power their supply chains.