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U-Freight's Singapore Operation Sets Up Fine Arts Division

U-Freight Singapore has established a new division for the shipment and handling of fine arts.

Industries' Performances Vary Widely on 'Supply Chain Effective Frontier'

For a new report on supply chain excellence, an assistant and I waded through spreadsheet after spreadsheet of data for the last three weeks and contrasted the progress of the high-tech, consumer products, food, pharmaceutical and industrial industries. The storyline of the report is that ONLY the high-tech industry is making progress on what I call the Supply Chain Effective Frontier - effectively balancing progress on growth, profitability, cycles and complexity. The rest of the industries are either stuck or moving backwards. Consumer packaged goods, food and chemical manufacturers are stuck and pharmaceutical and industrial companies are losing ground and moving backwards.

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Less Is More: Office Depot Cuts Supply-Chain Waste

Brent Beabout, senior vice president of supply chain with Office Depot, describes how the company slashed packaging waste by switching from corrugated cardboard to paper bags for deliveries to consumers and business. A finalist in the Supply Chain Innovation of the Year competition.

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Turning a Good Job Into a Great Career

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Apriso Issues Global Traceability Tool for A&D

Apriso Corp. has made available an application for achieving global traceability of products for aerospace and defense manufacturers.

Crowley Opens Cold-Storage Warehouse in Miami

Crowley Maritime Corp. has opened a new cold-storage warehouse in Miami, Fla.

Industry Needs Better Transportation Management and Dynamic Optimization, Study Says

Only 59 percent of shippers use performance metrics to manage freight costs and only 43 percent are currently running or planning to implement a transportation management system, according to a survey of more than 400 logistics managers by transportation services provider U.S. Xpress Enterprises.

KFC Sales in China Bounce Back Following Squawk Over Food Safety

An uproar in China over the safety of chicken sold at KFC "has been longer lasting and more impactful than we ever imagined," according to the chief executive of parent company Yum Brands.

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Importer of Record Responsible Under New USDA Meat Import Guidelines

On February 1, 2013, the United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), announced new guidelines governing the importation of meat and meat products. According to the bulletin, "the guide articulates which products and FSIS sampling and testing programs are subject to this policy." The program known as "test and hold" has a major impact upon product being exported to the United States and upon the importers of record for these transactions.

Supply Chain Leadership and Change

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Sustaining an Effective Risk Management Program at Coca-Cola

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How DHL Express Improved Its Costing Analysis

A few years ago, DHL Express was in a downward spiral of data quality. The company had used a Microsoft costing tool deployed locally in the 200 countries in it operates. Graeme Aitkin, vice president of business controlling, said the tool used employee interviews to localize cost allocations, asking couriers how they spent their time every day. In the old days, he said, when the data wasn't available, it wasn't possible for a company to have a unified costing and pricing system across a global company.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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