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International cosmetics brand streamlines Brazilian distribution with Penske Logistics

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of premium cosmetics and beauty products sought a new logistics model to meet its rapidly growing customer base in Brazil while reducing its carbon footprint.

Penske Logistics helps deliver freshness to growing convenience store chain

Challenge: A leading retail convenience store chain desired major improvements in replenishing its stores with fresh food items. The solution needed to facilitate daily collection, staging and delivery of fresh-baked goods and refrigerated foods by truck to every store across a wide geographic area.

Manufacturing's Dilemma: Baby Boomers Retiring; Students Finds the Industry Uninteresting

Many U.S. manufacturers are experiencing talent shortages in part because of an aging baby boomer generation that has begun its exodus from the U.S. workforce. The oldest baby boomers turned 65 on Jan. 1, 2011, and every day thereafter for about the next 19 years, some 10,000 more will reach the traditional retirement age, according to the Pew Research Center.

Cutting Through the Bureaucracy to Bring Innovative Ideas to Reality

What if you weren't just delivering meat to stores for sale but doing something more disruptive - like selling 40-pound packages of raw meat out of the back of refrigerated trucks? What kind of bureaucratic fat would you have to cut through then?

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Digital Coupon Users Spend 42% More Annually Than Average Shoppers, Survey Says

Digital coupon users spend 42 percent more per year at supermarkets than the average shopper - a differential of $1,029, according to a GfK report, based on more than 120 campaigns run by Coupons.com in 2012. This reflects a 7-percent increase compared to 2011.

War on Waste and Packaging to Target Supermarkets, Retail

There are few issues guaranteed to make environmentalists' blood boil quite like packaging and food waste. From single bananas in plastic wrapping to giant bags of produce that spoil within days, packaging and food waste remain one of the most visible symbols of resource inefficiency and a source of deep frustration for green campaigners and mainstream shoppers alike.

Are Automation, Lean Initiatives Leading to Rise in 'Jobless' Resurgence in U.S. Manufacturing?

In the past year, there have been numerous articles debating whether "reshoring" is a myth or really happening. For example, the cover article of the April 22, 2013 issue of Time magazine was "Made in USA - Manufacturing is Back - But Where are the Jobs?"

Not Waiting for IT Department's Lead, Many Senior Execs Make IT Investments on Their Own

Senior management executives are increasingly budgeting for information-technology purchases particular to their own functional areas or departments, beyond what's included in corporate and IT-department budgets.

Could China Be Getting Serious About Quality, Safety of Food Produced There?

And you thought Europeans had problems with their horse meat scandals. In China, consumers have to worry about getting served rat meat for dinner.

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For the Food Industry, a Shopping List of Critical Issues

Ask any food industry executive to cite his or her greatest concern, and the answer will almost always be the same: product safety. But the list doesn't stop there. Like any other business sector, food manufacturers are grappling with a number of challenges, many of them related to the age of the internet and social media.

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Managing a Seasonal Hazardous Material Surge

Challenge: Dunavant Logistics Group (DLG) was engaged to build domestic truckload capacity for a $2 billion chemical manufacturer client. A seasonal volume spike required DLG to increase capacity for hazardous materials (HAZMAT) freight. Additionally, all shipments were going to locations in Texas, a state with an imbalance in inbound supply and outbound demand.

Mobile CRM Reportedly Being Adopted at Blazing Pace

The world is going mobile, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that CRM is mobilizing too. On the other hand, the pace of mobile CRM adoption appears to be blazing, compared to general mobile use. Ironically, it seems that employees are embracing mobile CRM with about the same fervor that they've resisted desktop CRM.

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