Transportation & Warehousing News
Transportation costs hound Minnesota fresh produce industry - The Packer
The cost of fuel has added significantly to the price buyers and consumers pay for produce. While people may not have gotten used to it, “we know what to...
Consumerization trends hit IT service management - ITworld.com
Attendees at ServiceNow's Knowledge12 user conference here this week were abuzz about the promise of social collaboration and mobile enablement within their service-management tools. But many organizations are...
Logistics Solutions Provider, Source Consulting, Now Offers Transportation ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
In addition to in-house transportation cost management services, Source Consulting now offers innovative, cloud-based transportation management systems, Intelliship and HALO. Both SAAS (Software As A Service) solutions are...
2012 Polk Inventory Efficiency Award Winners Honored at Global Automotive ... - Sacramento Bee
Polk honored The Timken Company and Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance, Inc. with the 2012 Polk Inventory Efficiency Award during a ceremony held today at the Global Automotive Aftermarket...
Ask 1000 freight forwarders a question? Goodluck with that - The Loadstar
What to make of the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index, snappily sub-titled: Connecting to Compete? First things first: it’s a dull read. The Loadstar has spent a few...
IMPERIAL's North East carriers goes the extra mile with "green" transport ... - Bizcommunity.com
NEC MD Johann Schreuder says that the new trailer design - which mimics the perfect aerodynamic lines of a natural teardrop - is expected to achieve fuel saving...
Manhattan Associates Carving Niche In The Warehouse - Investor's Business Daily
Manhattan Associates (MANH) didn't write the book on warehouse management software, but it's added its own chapters. The company's year-over-year sales growth rate has risen each of the past...
Clugston Distribution celebrates 75 years in business - Shrewdd News (blog)
Clugston Distribution Services is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2012 - as part of the Clugston Group - by raising £75,000 for a number of charities. Employees from...
Stem the losses. Take a look at your own supply chains - The Loadstar
There seem to have been fewer complaints from the airline industry about low rates recently. It’s almost as if everyone is so busy cost-cutting, they’ve forgotten about the...
NetSuite Moves to 'Commerce as a Service' - New York Times (blog)
NetSuite manages corporate data and has been quite successful at its cloud-based system of sales, order and inventory management software. Now it has developed software to help customers build...
Dexion releases Realtime Distribution System - supply chain review
Dexion RDS (Realtime Distribution System) is a fully fledged Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Warehouse Control System (WCS) platform that choreographs the physical and logical aspects of your...
Is your DC struggling with fulfillment? Consider DOM software - DC Velocity
The days when consumers did most of their shopping at stores are long gone. Today's shopper is just as apt to order an item online or with...
Linde launches “innovative” cryogenic transportation system - Gasworld.com
Linde Gases, a division of the Linde group, has announced the launch of a ground breaking cryogenic transportation system – called FROSTCRUISE®.FROSTCRUISE® is a highly...
TCA Announces Weight Loss Showdown Winners - Truckinginfo
The Truckload Carriers Association announced that in its Weight Loss Showdown, Carl Bailey of Fair Play, Mo., took the top honor for individuals and Prime, Inc. of Springfield,...
SAP Seen Boosting Cloud to Vindicate SuccessFactors Deal - Bloomberg
SAP AG (SAP) plans to show this week it has learned from a flawed venture into Internet-based software five years ago with its new strategy for cloud-computing, months...
Salem County survey seeks to determine where transportation services are needed - NJ.com
Salem County officials want public input to determine where transportation is needed. SALEM — The Salem County Transportation Committee, with funding from the South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization, and...
St. Louis Trucking Company FW Trucking Launches activeT.R.A.C. - PR Web (press release)
St. Louis Trucking Company FW Trucking has launched activeT.R.A.C. on its web site http://www.FWtrucking.com, according to Mark Cusumano, President and CEO of FW Trucking. activeT.R.A.C. is a web-based add-on...
Vitran Express Buys Farrisview Terminal - Memphis Daily News
Vitran Express Inc., a subsidiary of Toronto-based freight services provider Vitran Corp., has bought a truck terminal at 2727 Farrisview Blvd. from Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. for...
City of Edmonton develops integrated planning, visibility into fleet optimization - Truck News
The City of Edmonton has completed a two-year project optimizing its parts management in municipal fleets. Edmonton faced many challenges as a medium-sized city that nevertheless covers a...
The Broken Image of Trucking - Today's Trucking News
Dear Trucking Industry,You don’t pay well, your working environments are unfavorable, there’s a lack of career advancement, and frankly, you’re just not that cool. Sincerely,Talented People Who Could Be...
Business
Charting a different course - Chicago Tribune
Getting an MBA is still the logical step toward the corner office, but more students are veering off the beaten...
Vodafone Ghana's 'Healthline' wins international award - Vibe Ghana
Vodafone Ghana’s groundbreaking initiative, ‘Healthline’ has been awarded the Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative at the Chartered Institute of...
Gaining In-Demand Skills in Today's Top Fields May Be the Best Investment You ... - eReleases (press release)
Invest in yourself! That’s the key message emphasized in the new spring 2012 Executive Education Online catalog, which supplies course...
Technology
Retail RFID: When and How, not Why or If - LP Portal
RFID Journal Live's 10th anniversary conference and exhibition was held in early April. I've attended them all and have...
RFID Captures Each Time Guests Throw in the Towel - RFID Journal
While working at several health clubs, Steven Molewyk had observed how much money they often lost due to discarded or...
Electric Imp promises to connect all consumer electronics wirelessly - Ubergizmo
In 1999, British technology pioneer Kevin Ashton co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT, a global standard system for RFID and other sensors....
Logistics & Manufacturing
DHL award logistics contract extension by BP - Analytiqa
DHL Supply Chain has won a £75.0 million contract extension from BP to manage warehousing and distribution for its UK...
NOL Group Reports US$254 Million First Quarter Net Loss - LogisticsWeek
NOL Group, the Singapore-based container shipping and logistics company, today reported a first quarter 2012 net loss of US$254 million...
Face the logistics carbon reduction challenge says FTA - HGV UK
Due to increased pressure from both government and customers, commercial vehicle operators must face the challenge of reducing carbon emissions...
Procurement
What Does AmazonSupply Mean to the Business Supply Chain? - Supply & Demand Chain Executive
With the debut of AmazonSupply, e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. finally made its move into the B2B marketplace on April 23....
Examining the EC strategy for e-procurement - Supply Management
The European Commission recently published its paper Strategy for e-procurement. The publication followed the recent proposed revised procurement directives, in...
UK Contract Awards: Airedale Chemicals Wins Contract for Supplying ... - Water World
Airedale Chemicals Co. Ltd., West Yorkshire, won a contract award from Thames Water Utilities Ltd. for the supply of orthophosphoric...
