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College Scholarship Program Created by C.H. Robinson Worldwide Foundation

To celebrate National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, the C.H. Robinson Worldwide Foundation has created the C.H. Robinson Worldwide Foundation Scholarship Program for Truckload Contract Carriers.

Retailers Applaud Online Sales Tax Collection in California, Urge Congress to Act Nationwide

Advocates for a level playing field between traditional brick-and-mortar retailers and their online-only competitors are celebrating the implementation of "sales tax fairness" in California. Last week, online-only retailers, such as Amazon.com, began collecting state sales tax in California.

Now You Can Follow the Leader: Walmart Eagerly Embraces Technology

With a staggering $444bn in annual revenue, Walmart has generally been sluggish and conservative, allowing tech innovations to be toyed with by rivals such as Amazon.com. But in the last few months, Walmart has quietly started acting like quite the aggressive start-up.

U.S. Vessel Imports are Down 3 Percent from July to August

Zepol Corporation, the leading trade intelligence company,reports that U.S. import shipment volume for August, measured in TEUs, is down from July by 3 percent and 0.3 percent from August 2011. It's unusual to see a drop in imports from July to August, since the trend for the past three years has been a spike in the month of August. In 2010 and 2011, August was actually the peak month of the year for TEU imports.

BI-LO, Winn-Dixie Implement Price Modeling, Optimization Solution

BI-LO Holding, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based parent company of BI-LO and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, has extended its business relationship with KSS Retail. What began as an assignment with the BI-LO banner has now grown to include price modeling and optimization services for the Winn-Dixie banner.

Direct-to-Store Delivery solution helps leading beverage company reduce distribution costs

Challenge: This leading tea manufacturer initially purchased delivery trucks to handle the direct-to-store distribution (DSD) of their product. Faced with an unreliable fleet and rising distribution costs, the manufacturer struggled to deliver to more than 330 locations and meet the stringent service requirements of major grocery chains.

How SCM Education Is Changing With the Times

John L. Kent, director of logistics and supply-chain management programs at Missouri State University, offers a look at how the educational curriculum in supply-chain management programs is changing - and what employers are looking for in new graduates.

Can Chinese Companies Compete on a Global Playing Field?

Considering the astonishing growth of China's economy over the past decade, it should come as no surprise that 73 Chinese companies showed up on this year's Fortune Global 500. That's up from 11 just ten years ago, but given that fact that the nation saw average annual GDP growth of 9.91 percent between 1979 and 2010, and is now the world's second largest economy, one might ask why more Chinese companies aren't on Fortune's list.

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Uncertain Economy Affects Retail Supply Chain

As retail supply chains grow increasingly larger geographical footprints, they become more susceptible to risk. Retailers have long prepared for natural disasters and geopolitical events, but ongoing financial crises and uncertainty has them even more concerned.

The Retail CIO's Impossible Job of Making Everybody Happy

Why is it that the same retailers who will replace a finance clerk's desktop like clockwork every four years will let their POS linger for eight, nine, 10 or more years? Why is it that data centers can be consolidated and servers can be virtualized but e-commerce still operates as a separate channel? The answer is simple: politics.

A Unique Teaching Tool for SCM Students

Chris Schrage, instructor of marketing at the University of Northern Iowa, describes a unique global trade-practices project that involved students from the U.S. and Brazil, and artisans from Latin America.

Can Chinese Companies Compete on a Global Playing Field?

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