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Regal Logistics Opens New Distribution Center in Los Angeles

Regal Logistics has purchased a new distribution center in the Los Angeles area. The facility in Garden Grove, Calif., offers 120,000 square feet of warehouse space.

Forging Responsible Supply Chains: Are Companies Growing Up?

Now that corporations are "persons," I suppose it's no stretch to describe supply chains as "mature" or "immature." In fact, the words are especially useful when it comes to determining a company's level of supply-chain responsibility.

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Forging Responsible Supply Chains: Are Companies Growing Up?

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British Telecommunications Issues Cloud-Based App for Global Supply Chains

British Telecommunications plc (BT) has developed cloud-based capabilities for BT Trace, the company's suite of services for managing global supply chains.

How Companies Are Making Smarter Decisions About Supply-Chain Outsourcing

What are the latest trends in supply-chain outsourcing? We get a perspective from Michael Dominy, research director with Gartner.

UPS Expands Healthcare Network in Asia-Pacific Region

UPS has expanded its distribution network for healthcare manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific region.

How to Align Supply Chain Capability and IT Systems

Every company possesses supply-chain capabilities and supporting IT systems. But they often don't mesh. Roddy Martin, senior vice president of global supply chain with CCI, calculates the price of misalignment - and lays out a strategy for combating the chronic problem.

E-Commerce to Power Record 'Green Monday' Shipments, According to FedEx Projections

FedEx expects to have its busiest day in history on Monday, Dec. 10, when it moves a projected 19 million shipments through its global ground, express and freight networks. The 10-percent, year-over-year increase will once again be driven by e-commerce feeding the FedEx Ground and FedEx SmartPost networks.

APL Logistics Takes Over Chinese 3PL Joint Venture

APL Logistics has signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares in APLL-Zhiqin Group, a Chinese joint venture partnership that has also included Legend Holdings Co., Ltd. and Beijing Willway Information Technology Co., Ltd.

U.S. Companies Continue to 'Play Year-End Games' With Receivables, Payables and Inventory

Many large U.S. companies continue to try and "game the system" at year's end, artificially improving their balance sheets by manipulating receivables, payables and inventory, according to a study from REL, a division of The Hackett Group. Their efforts, which can range from deep discounting and extended payment terms on sales to simply "losing" supplier bills, do have a positive impact in Q4, the study found. But these companies pay a harsh price in Q1, when working capital performance bounces back to even worse levels than before.

Class 8 Demand Dips in September, But 2012 Sales on Track to Top Last Year's

Class 8 new and net orders continued to soften in September as the perceived threat of bad economic news impacts potential truck buyers.

Vocollect Enhances Global Partner Program for Voice Tech

Vocollect, a vendor of voice technology for mobile workers, has created a new program for working with its global network of business partners.

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