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Shopping for a third-party logistics provider? Start here, with FL's annual listing of the leading 3PLs serving the food industry. For the fifth year in a row, Food Logistics has [...]

We consider the scheduling of truck arrivals at an air cargo terminal. By coordinating arrivals of cargo delivery trucks with outbound flight departure schedules, some of the shipments can be [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just in time delivery works just fine when everything runs according to schedule. But when your customer--whether half-way around the world or a few hours away--has an unexpected […]

Service parts logistics systems are usually characterized by very low random demand, high part cost, and target timebased service levels, all of which lead inventory planners to utilize inventory sharing or "emergency lateral transshipments" across multiple stocking locations. Using a stylized model with one central warehouse and multiple local stocking locations, we seek insights into the behavior of an inventory sharing system with time-based service level considerations. The goal of inventory sharing is to satisfy a demand in case a local facility is out of stock, by meeting the demand with a direct delivery from another location that can provide the service within the time window necessary for the target service level. We adapt an existing model from the literature for such a system and study its performance in terms of cost and service level. In addition, we evaluate two-location and three-location scenarios to study the effect of having additional stocking locations. Keywords: Inventory management; Inventory sharing; Service parts logistics; Time-based service levels; Performance evaluation

ALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS have raw materials coming in and finished product going out,' said C.R. 'Buzz' Canup, president of Canup & Associates, an Austin, Texas,-based site location firm whose varied [...]

Foxy Methoxy, Blue Mystic, and Maria Pastora are not names of entertainers. Street names for counterfeited, widely used pharmaceuticals have clever, catchy enunciations because they are easier to reference than [...]

When it comes to logistics and transportation, the lines between services and service providers have become blurred. Transportation companies are becoming 3PLs, logistics providers are stretching into warehousing and distribution, […]

Truckload carriers need to grow, but they can't add trucks. For some, that's a predicament, for others, an opportunity. Constrained by the driver shortage and high fuel costs as the [...]

Operations used to be strictly manual at BiRite Foodservice Distributors' 235,000-square-foot warehouse near San Francisco; pickers were simply given a stack of labels and told to go out and pick. [...]

As a business development and marketing vice president at Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, Shawn Barnett's job should be pretty far from that of manager of a fashion photograph,/' studio. Yet the logistics [...]

At IBM Corp., supply chain is a powerful force delivering impressive business results. During the past two years, IBM has reduced overall costs to the tune of $12 billion ($5.6 [...]

As the 2005 automobile models start flooding from all over the world onto dealer lots, consider all the factors that differentiate one vehicle from another--from model to engine type to […]

THIS IS THE FOURTH ANNUAL supplement from Modern Materials Handling to focus on the third-party logistics (3PL) industry. In the previous editions, we looked at: how to decide whether to [...]

Turning Twenty-Five Steven Leturno and Daniel Lisowski became friends while working together at an airfreight company over thirty years ago. They liked the industry, but neither was fond of the […]

It's the dividing line between the two wings of the logistics world, the line that to many defines the border between transport and logistics, between strategy and execution, and between [...]

The frantic pace of global trade, coupled with foreign sourcing and outsourcing, has transformed the supply chain. Food manufacturers involved in this new global economy have had to work through [...]

They don't have football teams or fraternities, but corporate universities offer a direct payback to their students in the form of promotions and pay raises. Of those who graduated from [...]

Your mission, should you accept it: Bring 1 million T-shirts from Guangdong province in China, all the way to the Port of Baltimore--within 15 weeks. You will begin by deciding [...]

Form follows function. This architect's adage may still hold true enough. Yet, it's seemingly not that simple when applied to a new generation of warehouses and distribution centers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [...]

In a world dominated by global economics, outsourced logistics and Internet-based transactions, it's quite clear that competition is no longer limited to individual companies vying against each other. The best-run [...]

If the backward supply chain looked the same as the forward supply chain, everyone could afford to be masters of reverse logistics. Unfortunately, they're two different animals, both difficult to [...]

Enterprise Services worked with its logistics service provider to improve availability of critical repair parts while reducing total logistics costs. Conventional wisdom has it that you can't have your cake [...]

The Internet. Only a few short years ago, the word was part of the argot of academic and government specialists. Now, it is the most talked-about application of technology since [...]