CEVA Logistics, a leading global supply chain management company, today announced it will officially launch Guaranteed Delivery services in the United States and Canada on December 1, 2008. Supported by one of the largest forwarder networks in North America, CEVA’s Guaranteed Delivery services offer customers a secure chain of custody with real-time, web-enabled visibility.
From commercialappeal.com: ” As the economic crisis deepens and fear of a deep, prolonged recession increases, third-party logistics companies are capitalizing on the increasing need of companies to implement cost-saving logistics solutions. Third-party logistics accounts for about 10 percent of the total logistics activity in the United States, but the revenue in the industry has [...]
From Homeland Defense Journal: “At the Mass Casualty Preparedness & Response Forum, all participants will engage together in addressing a capability-specific priority of the Goal to Strengthen Medical Surge and Mass Prophylaxis Capabilities. The Forum presents an opportunity for leaders, decision makers and planners of business, government and civil society (Non-profits, NGOs, etc.) to address [...]
From feraljundi.com: “If there was any an indicator of how things are going in a war, you can always look at the health of the logistics tail. And to me, just looking at these three stories that cover Pakistan and Afghanistan, it is obvious that there are some serious security issues with logistics going [...]
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) today announced that Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada’s largest food distributor and a leading provider of drugstore, general merchandise and financial products and services, has signed a license agreement to leverage JDA Software’s supply chain solutions.
With 140,000 employees, CAD$29.4 billion in annual revenue and more than 1,000 corporate and franchised [...]
Deutsche Post World Net takes strong action to reduce U.S. Express loss, improve Group performance in light of economic downturn… DHL Express to focus on international competencies in the U.S. and exit U.S. domestic air and ground business. Roadmap to Value program intensified amid challenging economic environment - savings of 1 billion euros targeted. Group [...]
Some companies, regardless of their industry or size, do well. They are successful with low value merchandise or with fashionable merchandise or whatever product. Other firms struggle or so it seems. The difference, when you drill down, is often how well a firm executes supply chain management.
From RFID News: “Retail behemoth Wal-Mart will require its Chinese suppliers to use RFID tagging to label shipments as of January 2009. Stricter requirements began to be introduced in October of this year, but by next year, the standards will effect all of Wal-Mart’s more than 1,000 Chinese suppliers. RFID tagging is expected to cost [...]
So you want or need to learn about Logistics and Supply Chain Management? Take it from me, there are worse fates in life as at least these skills can be applied in the real world in support of business activity execution, expense reductions and to improve customer service. And even those who are perhaps here [...]
