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

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

23rd Annual Salary Survey: Steady As She Goes.
March 1, 2007... By Jeff Berman, Senior Editor After a dramatic rise and fall over the last few years, logistics salaries have leveled off--for now, at least. In any industry, employees are looking for growth, especially when it comes to their wages....

Price Trends.
March 1, 2007... By Elizabeth Baatz, Thinking Cap Solutions Pricing Across the Transportation Modes Trucking Elizabeth Baatz Average prices for trucking services increased 0.6% in January 2007 thanks in large part to a 1% hike in prices...

Global operations: A new reality.
March 1, 2007... By Patrick M. Byrne The consensus of 300 supply chain executives across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific is that global sourcing will jump by 17 percent within three years. Global manufacturing will increase by 37 percent during the...

3PL metrics take root at Scotts.(Company overview)
March 1, 2007... By John Kerr To improve its service to global retailers, the lawn- and yard-care giant has developed a richly-layered system for measuring and managing the performance of its third-party warehouses. Summer's coming, and with it comes a...

Plotting your RFID roadmap.
March 1, 2007... By Bridget McCrea, Contributing Editor Mandates have cooled but adoption continues to boom in some industry segments. Will you have a strategy in place when RFID steps out of the planning stages and into reality in your market? The...

Air cargo security on Congress' radar screen again.
March 1, 2007... By Jeff Berman, Senior Editor Shippers, forwarders, and airlines voice concern as Senate takes up proposal for 100 percent screening of cargo on passenger aircraft WASHINGTON--The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and...

DOT's Peters: *Time to treat transportation as a business*.
March 1, 2007... By John D. Schulz WASHINGTON--If the United States is to combat increasingly crippling congestion in its aging transportation-infrastructure system, it must do so through innovative public-private partnerships, Transportation Secretary...

U.S. providers say logistics in China is on the right track.
March 1, 2007... By Jeff Berman BEIJING--Recent media reports coming out of China indicate that the government plans to spend $440 billion over the next 30 years on upgrading highways and railroads. That bodes well for U.S. transportation and logistics...

NCC is paying more attention to density-based ratings.
March 1, 2007... By Ray Bohman If you've been keeping an eye on supplements to the trucking industry's National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) over the past several years, you'll have noticed that more and more commodities listed there are being made...

What? You want me to invest in my carriers?
March 1, 2007... By John A. Gentle, DLP To shippers, the idea of investing in their carriers may seem ludicrous. The response to such a suggestion is likely to go this way: Why would I want to spend any time or budget doing that? They've never invested or...

Strike while the iron is hot.
March 1, 2007... By John D. Schulz, Contributing Editor Truckload shippers are moving to take advantage of the current "soft" market, but industry experts warn against sacrificing long-term relationships for short-term gain. For most of the past...

Management Update.
March 1, 2007... By Staff An executive summary of industry news Let the wrangling over cross-border deliveries begin. On February 23, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced that for the first time, U.S. trucking companies will be allowed...

Break out of the rut.
March 1, 2007... By Michael A. Levans, Chief Editor What's more intriguing than finding out how much cash your peers are pulling in? According to my Web-traffic metrics, there's absolutely nothing more interesting to logistics and supply chain managers. As...

Where, why, and how many?
March 1, 2007... By Karen E. Thuermer Rapidly changing market forces require shippers to build flexibility and agility into their networks. That has a big impact on strategies for locating distribution centers. In the logistics world, where speed to...

U.S. Ports Expand Keeping Pace with Import Growth.
March 1, 2007... By John Paul Quinn U.S. ports remain confident that aggressive infrastructure expansion will keep pace with the relentless growth of the Asian trade that they wished for -- and definitely got. Despite the fact that in 2006, many U.S....

Advantage: Shippers--But for How Long?
March 1, 2007... By John D. Schulz, Contributing Editor Weak demand and more capacity are bringing truckload rates down. But that may not last long, say carriers and analysts. The combination of an economic slowdown in autos and housing, a...