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The Logistics of Saving Lives Through a Challenging Delivery
Challenge: A large U.S.-based drug retailer entrusted UPS to transport 375,000 donated doses of seasonal flu vaccine into Laos in less than a week. In order to remain compliant, the vaccine needed to maintain a strict temperature range of 2°C to 8°C across 5 countries and 9,000 miles.
Flexible Logistics Solution Enables a High-Growth Company's Transition to Household Brand
Challenge: A high-growth food and beverage company needed a reliable, flexible distribution partner capable of managing explosive demand.
2-4 Hour Parts Availability for Global Storage Systems Support
Challenge: Our client is a global storage systems and service provider that supports essential corporate processes for its Fortune 100 customer install base. With service level agreements that are typically 4 hours or less in over 200 countries, they needed a reliable critical service parts logistics provider with Choice Logistics' global breadth and expertise that would help meet their customer demands.
Global Service Parts Field Stocking for 24x7 Networking Uptime
Challenge: Companies around the world entrust our client to keep their vital communications networks operating around the clock. Since managing over 70,000 forward stocked service parts internally detracted from their core competencies, they made a strategic decision to partner with Choice Logistics to ensure the highest level of service.
Washington's Transportation Policy: Dancing Through the Minefield
One could say that transportation faces multiple hurdles in the coming year, in the guise of new regulations and legislation that promise to have a serious impact on all modes. Me? I prefer to think of it as a minefield.
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Keys to Fulfilling Multiple Channels From a Common DC
Jason Denmon, apparel industry executive with Fortna, offers advice on how companies can utilize a common distribution center for servicing multiple brands or channels - and why it's so tough to get it right.
The Retail Industry Enters the Connected Age
Analyst Insight: As traditional retailers feel the sting of Amazon's long tail whip, e-commerce and retail are merging into omni-channel strategies. In the Connected Age everyone is always connected to everything, always on, and location based. Just as the power shifted from manufacturer to retailer, the power in the retail channel has now shifted to the consumer who can buy anything from anyone, anytime, from anywhere. You better know your customer and your market to succeed. - Rich Sherman, Supply Chain Discipline Expert at Trissential
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Supply Chain Takes Its Power Position in the Retail Industry!
Analyst Insight: Retail is in a dramatic transformative phase. Consumers' multichannel access and shopping and web commerce vs. in-store shopping have retailers experimenting with many new approaches and technologies. Multi-merged channel expectations put fulfillment front and center as a major concern - no more relegating supply chain to the backwaters of retail management! - Ann Grackin, CEO, ChainLink Research
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Multichannel Fulfillment Is The New Normal
Analyst Insight: Multichannel fulfillment can be defined as optimizing the supply chain's capabilities to simultaneously receive and process orders from multiple ordering channels and fulfill them from the source that provides the highest level of consumer satisfaction and lowest fulfillment cost to the retailer. This model for fulfillment is both customer - and cost-driven and, therefore, the new de facto standard for the retail supply chain. - Joe Vernon, Manager of North America Supply Chain Technologies, Capgemini
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CargoSphere Unveils Update of Global Rate Network
CargoSphere, a cloud-based network for global freight-rate management for the ocean and air logistics industries, has developed version 4.0 of its CargoSphere Rate Network (CRN).
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NewAge Software & Solutions Enters North American Market
NewAge Software & Solutions, a provider of software applications for freight forwarders and logistics companies, has entered the North American market.
How To Get Better Employee Buy-In for An LMS Implementation
The English language is full of potentially polarizing statements. But few are more likely to inspire mixed feelings among DC professionals than some facsimile of this: "Our facility is getting a labor management system."
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