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Global Logistics Synchronization: The Advantage in Global Manufacturing

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Contract Management Helps Ensure That Negotiated Savings Reach Bottom Line

As corporations turn a strategic eye on sourcing operations, they increasingly realize the need to better manage and enforce their numerous contracts. In may ways, this is old news for transportation and logistics, where contract management tools and processes already are well established, though still underused.

For Ford Motor Co.,the Aftermarket Is No Longer an Afterthought

The automaker teams up with Caterpillar Logistics and SAP to forge a new information system to manage the flow of service parts to dealers around the world.

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Whether Building Block or Hurdle, VMI Generates Renewed Interest

Is vendor-managed inventory a boon to suppliers or another problem for them to overcome? Regardless of where you come down on that question, analysts say a confluence of forces is whipping up renewed interest in VMI.

U.S. Distributor Puts Plan for Major Sales Growth on the Boil

Macna, the American seller of high-end industrial boilers from France, eyes the lucrative residential market - with the help of a logistics and warehousing partner.

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Global Trade Drives Third-Party Logistics Providers' Expansion

U.S.-based 3PLs are stepping up their international supply-chain capabilities to keep their customers competitive in the new global economy.

Supply-chain Advantages of Doing Business in and from Canada

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Best Practices Minimize the 'Luck Factor' In SC Planning

Ten best practices in supply-chain planning, culled from conversations with leading supply-chain executives, analysts and vendors - the first of a series of six "Best Practices" articles to be presented this year.

Better Economy, Tighter Capacity May Shift Trucking To Sellers' Market

In recent years the trucking industry has experienced rapidly rising costs in a rapidly falling economy. Now, with business up and capacity down, the industry may find the leverage it needs to improve profitability.

Time Warner Books Creates a Showpiece for Distribution

Improvements in warehousing and transportation have created a profit center at the publisher's centralized distribution facility.

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Taking the Risk Out of Your Supply Chain

Terrorists are well aware of the opportunity that global supply chains present to deliver a devastating attack on the U.S. It's up to both the government and U.S. importers to protect us all.

West Marine Leaves Inefficient Supply Chain In Its Wake

A Conversation with West Marine Senior Vice Presidents Larry Smith and Patrick Murphy

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