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Ready-to-Please 3PL Wins Ready-to-Assemble Furniture Business

Just as complacency will kill a relationship, collaboration, cooperation and comprehensive services can make one successful for all parties.

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Vent Manufacturer Adopts Cloud-Based TMS System

Moving from manual management of one's transportation requirements to an automated system brings many benefits, but just any old TMS won't do.

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Cross-Border Trade Requires Robust Customs Broker

When a supplier of agricultural products went looking for an EDI provider, it found one that matched all of its best-in-practice requirements.

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E-Commerce Magnifies Complexity of Wholesale Distribution

The wholesale distribution (WSD) market is huge. At $4.8tr in annual revenues, WSD industry revenues are nearly 100 percent more than sales of consumer packaged goods, and slightly greater than U.S. retail sales revenues.

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Strength in Numbers: Forwarder Network Taps CargoSmart's Carrier Data

With the goal of building up a worldwide network of medium-sized freight forwarders, BuyCo For Growth sought a link to ocean carriers that would provide instant access to schedules, rates and other data critical to the movement of its customers' cargo.

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Keeping an Eye On Fresh Produce, Not Its Shipment

A broker of fresh fruits and vegetables was delighted when a 3PL took over everything having to do with real-time location and arrival of trucks loaded with the produce.

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100 Great Supply Chain Partners: Something to Shout About!

If our annual 100 Great Supply Chain Partners is about anything, it's about sending a giant thank-you note, in a very public way, to a business partner that has demonstrably helped your business. Whether the partner you single out for recognition is involved in logistics and transportation, technology or in some other aspect of supply chain management, their efforts helped you immeasurably while you concentrated on your core business. And they deserve a shout-out and a public salute.

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REZ-1 Acquires International Asset Systems

REZ-1, Inc., a provider of asset management, equipment reservation, billing and reload services to the domestic intermodal industry, has acquired International Asset Systems (IAS), a vendor of cloud-based software for global logistics and transportation management.

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FECR Partners With Logistical Labs on Intermodal Booking

Florida East Coast Railway has partnered with Logistical Labs, a provider of cloud-based supply-chain software, to expand access to EZ Buy, its online portal for intermodal rates.

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Makers of Vaccines in China Face New Logistics Regulations

Sanofi provided insight into the logistics hurdles faced by vaccine makers in China after distribution and sales rule changes were made in response to illegal vaccine sales.

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DHL Opens New Service Center in Chicago; Pop-Up Shop in Greater Toronto

DHL has expanded operations in Chicago with the opening of a new service center.

Spot Freight Rates Have Recovered, Finally, on Asia-Europe Lanes

The downwards trend line in Asia-Europe spot freight rates has finally been reversed, as data from World Container Index Shanghai-Europe reveals.

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