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It isn't easy. But if you can put together the right elements, you'll discover a new source of competitive advantage. Top management in companies across America are hearing about the [...]

Effective supply-chain management can cut costs, improve service, and enhance revenues. And that's just the beginning. Editor's Note: This concludes our six-part series on supply-chain management. Earlier articles defined the [...]

You can't turn around these days without hearing the term supply-chain management. What is it and can it live up to all the hype? The evolution has been steady and [...]

Industry competition among less-than-truckload carriers in the Midwest are intensifying due to the entry of non-union carriers and the advantages offered by the region's geographical position. The competition has forced both longhaul carriers and express carriers to improve their services. As a result, a wide array of transportation services are being offered to costumers at lower rates.

The South is rising again, with upbeat forecasts for both manufacturing and service companies. That's good news for truckers and shippers alike. The LTL motor carrier industry is experiencing a [...]

Faced with stiff competition from smaller haulers, the nation's longhaul LTL carriers are retooling their operations. 1995 will go down in history as a watershed year for the nation's biggest [...]

Latest service offerings emphasize timely delivery, international options, and new technology. Talking about air freight in today's dynamic distribution environment is a lot like discussing the New England weather. As [...]

In case you haven't experienced it yet, the scenario goes something like this. Your boss, or maybe the personnel director, calls you into his office, invites you to have a [...]

Third-party logistics, also known as outsourcing, is one of those hot topics that everyone talks about today. But how many companies really have embraced the concept? How many have turned [...]

Top 10 Logistics Ideas Sometimes the best ideas have an underlying logic that's surprisingly simple. Once you've heard them, you scratch your head and wonder, 'Now, why didn't I think [...]

A model distribution system The advice heard more and more these days in distribution circles is 'Work smarter, not harder.' For some years now, Pet Inc. has played a variation [...]

$47,000 and counting That's the average salary reported by readers in this year's salary survey. Can $50K be that far off? Money isn't the only thing in life, but it [...]

A new survey shows that shippers look for knowledge, heavy service orientation in the motor carrier salespeople they do business with. Ask a shipper about the motor carrier sales representatives [...]

Procurement, purchasing, and now supply management. Whatever name you apply to the process of acquiring goods and services for your business, one thing is clear: it represents a huge dollar [...]

When it comes to moving product to market, integrated teams are far more effective than individuals. Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a six-part series on supply-chain management. Earlier [...]

Carriers operating in this region remain optimistic despite overcapacity, horrific congestion, and the untamed winter weather. Mid-winter blizzards that paralyze the interstate highways, road and bridge repairs that show no [...]

Service expansions, new players, heightened competition are hallmarks of LTL trucking in the country's biggest region. It's the same, but different. On the one hand, the LTL trucking environment in [...]

Presents an interview with poet Robert Bly. Time at Harvard University; Description of the literary scene during the 1950s; Books published including "Silence in the Snowy Fields" and "Morning Poems"; Work as a translator; Writing poems about Vietnam; Work with men.

Despite having to do more with less, readers say they like their work. If you're working in a traffic/transportation/distribution job today (like the great majority of our readers), you likely [...]

If you haven't studied the Americans With Disabilities Act, you're flirting with some costly consequences. D-Day has come and gone, but far too many companies still don't know what happened. [...]

In 1988, Omega Trucking Co. of St. Louis invested heavily in an EDI system that could electronically exchange shipping information between the carrier and its customers. That system has been [...]

AN OVERARCHING CRISIS IN TODAY'S CHURCH is a crisis of faith; not faith in God, not faith in Jesus Christ, but a crisis of faith in the institutional church. Members [...]

From the very beginning, a central tenet of the supply chain philosophy has been integration. Initially, this meant integrating the various functional areas within the organization that worked on moving [...]

There's a natural tendency toward complacency after a project is successfully completed or a couple of good consecutive quarters have been reported. But that all-too-human reaction can have debilitating business [...]

The current economic malaise and continuing stock market doldrums have seemed to sour many people on e-commerce. Yet this is an illogical target for the blame. While it may be [...]

It's a question that's been percolating for some time now: Are supply chain professionals masters of the technology they employ or are they mastered by it? We all know what [...]

More and more, we're hearing of the 'last mile' of the supply chain. It's that critical point at which the product or part makes contact with the user. The idea [...]

AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID SIMCHI-LEVI David Simchi-Levi's book Designing and Managing the Supply Chain (Irwin/McGraw Hill, 1999) is notable on at least two accounts: (1) it convincingly makes the case [...]

It becomes more and more evident every day. The two worlds of the physical and the virtual supply chain are gradually blending into one. The mechanics of moving and storing [...]

The annual Council of Logistics Management (CLM) conference held recently in New Orleans was notable on a number of counts. For one, it marked the first time that the word [...]

It's widely acknowledged that the ability to collaborate with your trading partners up and down the supply chain is a prime determinant of business success. The management consultants hammer this [...]

As editor of Supply Chain Management Review, I have the opportunity to review many books and white papers on supply chain management. The job also brings me to dozens of [...]

We're living in an e-enabled, dot.com world. And if you had any doubts for an instant, just turn on the television, read the newspaper, or look through the articles and [...]

It's close to becoming a business clichA[copyright], but we can't resist saying it one more time: Supply chain management has become the new source of competitive advantage. How well you [...]

Who knew that the phenomenon known as e-commerce would come on so hard and so fast? And who could have predicted that the people responsible for moving product to market [...]

The value inherent in the supply chain management proposition seems to be self-evident. Manage the flow of materials from source to final consumption in an integrated manner--keeping inventory to a [...]

One of the advantages of being a magazine editor is that you get to travel around and listen to people a lot. While the average logistics manager might attend two [...]