Prepare Today for the Workforce of Tomorrow
A recent ranking highlights logistician careers as among the best – yet manufacturers still face a shortage of qualified workers as the demand for skilled logistics professionals grows.
Delivery App Perks Up Coffee Sales
A new app helped a coffee merchant digitally transformed its retail sales and distribution processes.
Physics of a Customer-Centric Supply Chain
The supply chain strategy shift, from business cost efficiency to customer purchase location flexibility, is similar to the Copernican Revolution. Here’s how supply chain managers can increase product velocity using a customer-centric business model.
Tapping Military Talent: Shoes on the Ground
Supply chain logistics companies view veterans as a crucial pool of potential employees, and consequently they are using a range of methods to recruit and hire former members of the military for their workforces.
Who Are You Doing Business With?
Denied party screening is of critical importance in shipping and international trade, and essential for minimizing business risk today.
Materials Handling Equipment Kicks Into High Gear
New technology abounds inside the four walls of a distribution center. From narrow aisles configurations, specialized rack systems and lift equipment to optimize stacking capabilities, WMS software that integrates with automated sortation systems, and self-guided intelligent robotic vehicles, innovations in materials handling products are transforming the supply chain.
Supply Chain Execs Shift Focus From Sustenance to Survival
If they haven’t already, supply chain executives need to immediately deploy more flexible and agile supply chain management solutions that encompass an enterprise resource planning system.
3PL Perspectives 2016
Inbound Logistics’ exclusive market research survey on the third-party logistics (3PL) sector reveals new trends and opportunities.
How to Be Fashionably Green
Going green is in style for retailers. Here’s how adopting a multi-faceted sustainability strategy can lower costs as well as boost brand loyalty.
6 Technologies Guaranteed to Disrupt Your Supply Chain
Emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, collaborative robotics, self-driving trucks, drones and the Uberization of deliveries are poised to be disruptive influences on logistics in the coming years.