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Holiday Delivery Foul-up More the Fault of Retailers Than Carriers, Study Finds

Widespread delays to Christmas deliveries made headlines over the holiday season. But while carriers like UPS and even FedEx were quick to apologize, a new study suggests they may be shouldering a disproportionate amount of the blame. Kurt Salmon found that the majority of delays experienced in their analysis of holiday shipping and delivery dates were the fault of retailers, not carriers.

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How Do You Manage Risk in a Logistics Chain?

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Focus on Resiliency in Operations Tops Predictions for Supply Chains in 2014

Operational resiliency will be the focus of supply chain strategies this year and beyond, according to IDC Manufacturing Insights, which released its top 10 supply chain predictions for the year.

Sourcing and Procurement Comes of Age

Before the cloud - before the commercial internet - there were communications networks that linked manufacturers with their suppliers. How effective they were is another matter entirely.

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Crowley Granted FTZ Status for Puerto Rico Warehouse

The Caribbean logistics unit of Crowley Maritime Corp. has won designation as a foreign trade zone.

Factories Fail in Search for Supply Chain Risks

Here's the latest advice for supply-chain managers: Sweat the small stuff. Manufacturing company executives responsible for parts and supplies tend to worry most about what would happen if deliveries from one of their biggest suppliers were disrupted by a natural disaster or other unforeseen event, says David Simchi-Levi, an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Making Global Sourcing Work for You

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Tiger Cool Express Acquires 200 Reefer Containers

Tiger Cool Express LLC, anticipating a scheduled spring 2014 start-up of operations, has acquired an initial order of 200 refrigerated containers.

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The Strategic Approach to Implementing Traceability Standards

The importance of produce traceability has been made devastatingly clear in recent years by well publicized incidents of illness, and even death, due to contaminated lettuce, spinach, cantaloupes and more. While officials in such cases spend weeks tracing the contamination to its source, all growers, wholesalers and retailers suffer market consequences.

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Using Data to Mitigate Risk and Build Supply Chain Resiliency

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Three Supply Chain Stocking Stuffers Every CEO Wants

Why are CEOs allocating more of their valuable time to thinking about their supply chain?

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Can Maritime Piracy Be Stopped?

Does commercial shipping have to be a matter of life or death?

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