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UPS Expands Healthcare Network in Asia-Pacific Region
UPS has expanded its distribution network for healthcare manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Risk Management: Making the Right Choices
The topic of supply-chain risk management is fraught with agonizing questions. Should global businesses emphasize risk prevention, or steel themselves to respond to whatever disaster might occur? Should they seek to transfer risk, or concentrate on achieving better risk-management up front? Should they attempt to do all of the above? The wrong answer can mean the death of an organization.
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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.
Risk Management: Making the Right Choices
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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.
Bringing WMS to the Cloud
Dan Radunz, vice president of product development with HighJump Software, shares his insights on the readiness of warehouse-management systems to move to the cloud. He also reveals some of the top drivers for cloud adoption by WMS vendors and their customers.
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.
Making the Case for Screening as a Service at Ocean Ports
The primary business of a port is serving as a hub for water-borne commerce and all of the logistics that entails, with each port competing for the business of shippers and container operators. Every investment made by a port authority, from a crane to a dredge to a security checkpoint, must be based on how this activity will not only position the port to current customers, but how it will affect the attraction of future customers.
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.
IMO Rules 'Should' Be Subject to Impact and Sustainability Assessment, Says ICS
There are clearly identifiable steps needed to enhance shipping's already very impressive record of maritime safety, says International Chamber of Shipping Secretary General Peter Hinchliffe. There should be mandatory provisions to provide a place of refuge for ships in need of assistance, plus timely and obligatory reporting of casualty investigations by Flag States to the International Maritime Organization, replicating the handling of aviation incidents. In addition, environmental protection and crew and passenger safety can be addressed better by raising the current level of guidance on providing a place of refuge to a new level of obligation, he said.
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