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Americold, Solving Your Supply Chain Needs

Challenge: Due to the popularity of its product line, a food producer experienced a sudden increase in local market demand, resulting in an urgent need for cold storage space to accommodate increased inventory. In addition to growing demand, random order frequency necessitated inbound and outbound truck handling flexibility to ensure OTIF fulfilment while maintaining product integrity.

Robots on Warehouse Floor Show a Surprise Perk of Hot Job Market

Instead of displacing American workers, robots may soon make many of their jobs more efficient.

Why Online Retailers Need Better Inventory Management

Online sales are a must for just about every traditional retailer today. But they can also be a drag on profits.

U.S. Warehouse Supply at Its Tightest in Two Decades

For U.S. retailers, manufacturers, importers and exporters, warehouse space is at its tightest since 2000, when the first dot-com boom was driving strong consumer spending and imports from China were beginning to surge.

3PL Takes Major Leap Toward Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Compliance

Challenge: Nearly 10 percent of the world’s drug supply is counterfeit, prompting many countries to set rigid guidelines to track and trace pharmaceuticals across the supply chain. Achieving compliance is often a huge undertaking for pharmaceutical manufacturers and 3PL providers.

Disruption in the Supply Chain Market

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Challenges & Opportunities in Supply Chain

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Five Tips for Managing Digital Transformation

Procurement teams needs to create a vision for how they are going to deal with digital transformation.

Warehouses Are ‘Getting Too Exciting’ in E-Commerce Age, Zell Says

Investor interest in building and acquiring warehouses in the age of Amazon.com Inc. is overheating, and there might be more distribution centers created than there will be tenants to fill them, billionaire Sam Zell said.

Findchips Pro Enterprise Decreased Product Delays by 48 Percent

Challenge: A company's engineering and sourcing departments were siloed and lacking access to historical information and accurate market data (pricing, availability and risk). The engineering department partially designs based on performance, but the bills of materials (BOMs) sent to the sourcing department were not procurable. The company needed access to the right data to increase contract negotiating power and reduce product launch risks due to inventory and manufacturing issues.

In the Age of Amazon, Warehouse Powerhouse Prologis Is Getting Bigger

For Prologis Inc., the world's largest warehouse owner, the biggest challenge to growth has been acquiring land in the markets most important to its e-commerce tenants. The solution: Buy a rival.

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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