Logistics Management (Highlands Ranch, CO) articles from August 2007

Logistics Management (Highlands Ranch, CO) archives from August 2007

In the winner's circle.
August 1, 2007... By Staff Which carriers and third parties provide winning service? For the 24th year, our readers share their 'sure bets' for high quality service in logistics and transportation. There's nothing quite as exciting as watching the top...

Impressive Pedigree.
August 1, 2007... By Staff The National LTL sector is certainly undergoing a transformation. It seems that mergers and acquisitions over the past couple years have sent marketing teams scrambling to change colors on cabs and trailers on a monthly basis....

Strong Down the Stretch.
August 1, 2007... By Staff Shippers have always been tough critics of their Regional LTL carriers. But today, if a carrier starts to slip in its On-time Performance or can't offer robust tracking and tracing, shippers are quick to make a move to an...

Fast Runners on a Muddy Track.
August 1, 2007... By Staff Can you think of another sector in the logistics and transportation market that's had a muddier track to negotiate than truckload (TL)? Over the past seven months, capacity has slowly returned to the segment, putting downward...

Favorites Across the Board.
August 1, 2007... By Staff When we released our Quest for Quality results last year, railroad freight volumes were chugging along at a record-breaking pace. This year, the outlook is decidedly different. Plagued by weak economic growth and slumps in certain...

True Thoroughbreds.
August 1, 2007... By Staff Ocean carriers are working hard to stand out in the crowd. They want to be profitable, highly efficient, and tops in world-class customer satisfaction. But it isn't easy when so many shippers these days are considering ocean...

Sky Sires.
August 1, 2007... By Staff As LM 's Karen Thuermer reports in our Quarterly Transportation Report this month (page 85T), the globalization of manufacturing has certainly pressed industry analysts to set some fairly optimistic projections for the air cargo...

Fast Breakers.
August 1, 2007... By Staff There's little surprise that industry analysts are projecting a bright future for freight forwarders that can offer world-class service. According to a recent report by the U.K.-based analyst firm Transport Intelligence (TI), the...

Global Pace Setters.
August 1, 2007... By Staff If you attended LM 's 2007 Global 3PL Roundtable webcast recently, you're well aware of the current state of the international third-party logistics market: Business is pretty darn good. According to Evan Armstrong's presentation,...

Thinking lean: The cure for what ails you.
August 1, 2007... By Tom Andel If you want proof that logistics is a matter of life and death, visit your local hospital. Better yet, make a trip to New London, Conn., and visit Lawrence & Memorial Hospital. Tim Cavanagh will walk you through the logistics...

Price Trends.
August 1, 2007... By Elizabeth Baatz Pricing Across the Transportation Modes Trucking Elizabeth Baatz The trucking industry appears to be idling at a crossroads. Price escalation peaked at 5.7% in the final quarter of 2005. Since then, prices...

Why procurement matters to supply chain managers.
August 1, 2007... By Patrick M. Byrne Decades back, the procurement function was perceived as clerical and reactive-a cost center. Today, it's generally viewed as a strategic, proactive process, with real potential to impact profitability, corporate growth,...

Keeping up with customs.
August 1, 2007... By Misty Rutter, Contributing Editor The Safe Port Act of 2006 contains directives that will change the way importers communicate and interact with Customs. If shippers don't keep up, the burden of data gathering from both a cost and...

Managing by the numbers.
August 1, 2007... By Bridget McCrea, Contributing Editor Savvy shippers are translating existing raw data into information that helps them save time and cut freight costs-here's how they're getting smarter and leaner. Wouldn't it be great to have a...

Bush signs maritime, air cargo inspection bill.
August 1, 2007... By Jeff Berman, Senior Editor Critics say 100-percent container inspection 'would have a crippling effect on global trade without significantly improving security.' WASHINGTON-In a decision that will have a major impact on how cargo...

Shippers, carriers scramble in wake of another HOS ruling.
August 1, 2007... By John D. Schulz, Contributing Editor WASHINGTON-For the third time in three years, portions of the hours-of-service (HOS) rules, governing an estimated 8 million truck drivers, have been ruled illegal. A federal court threw out the...

Industry M&A activity maintains momentum, small group of big spenders are winning the race.
August 1, 2007... By Jeff Berman, Senior Editor ATLANTA-According to Ben Gordon, managing director of BG Strategic Advisors, merger and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics sector through the first seven months of 2007 appears to be...

New LTL pricing system evolves.
August 1, 2007... By Ray Bohman Have you ever heard of cube-based pricing? If you haven't already, I'm pretty sure you will in the next few months. A number of less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers of general commodity-as well as many shippers-have shown a...

Do you have a mentor? You should.
August 1, 2007... By Wayne Bourne He sits at the far end of the large conference room table that runs perpendicular to his vintage mahogany desk. Above the desk hangs a picture of the founder of the company, his father. Hanging casually on one side of the...

Air Cargo: Challenges Ahead.(Company overview)
August 1, 2007... By Karen E. Thuermer With the globalization of manufacturing and companies increasingly incorporating the movement of their parts and products by air, projections for the air cargo industry are optimistic. In fact, experts tracking the...

Bringing air costs back down to earth.
August 1, 2007... By Tom Andel, Editor at Large American Power Conversion's air freight costs were out of this world, so the shipper consolidated its worldwide transportation team to leverage spend, winnowed its core carriers to four, created internal...

Management Update.
August 1, 2007... By Staff An executive summary of industry news LM 's 16th Annual Masters of Logistics study goes live on September 19th . Group Editorial Director Michael Levans, Dr. Mary Holcomb of the University of Tennessee, and Dr. Karl Manrodt of...

Let the celebration begin.
August 1, 2007... By Michael A. Levans, Group Editorial Director It seems that every time I sit down to write this column I lead off by thanking readers for yet another record response rate to one of our long-running research projects-and I'm about to do it...

Beating the back to school rush.
August 1, 2007... By John Kerr, Contributing Editor Until recently, educational publisher Carson-Dellosa had difficulty getting orders picked and onto trucks on time during peak seasons. Here's how the company turned its new warehouse facility into a...