Blog

How freight exchange services, such as Returnloads.net, can provide a marketplace to promote greener haulage transportation.

Whatever the nature of your supply chain, it is important to know that your ingredients or raw materials are safe and sustainable, as retailer Target has recently shown.

Steve Northcott-Motorola Solutions

Old habits can be hard to break but when it comes to warehouse management, you’ll reap big rewards if you lose some outdated practices and strategies and adopt new ones that take advantage of the latest advances in mobile technology.

You can realize cost savings, labor time, and increased customer service when employing logistics automation in transportation management.

By Ed Holden, Editor, Manufacturing & Logistics IT.
We have been hearing quite a lot over the past year or two about Choose-Your-Own-Device (CYOD) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

Tweakker’s newly-patented instant connectivity technology opens the era of one global manufacturing market

The economy is never out of focus in the shipping and logistics industries, and recent news shows the road ahead in neither simple nor expected.

Single-sourced components represent a significant risk to supply chains because their disruption can cripple efforts until a suitable replacement is found, vetted and contractually secured. Proper mitigation requires improved supply chain visibility.

Philip Odette-Global Supply Chain Solutions

Cloud systems have come in to their own for supply chain management. Originally entering the market as a cheap method storage and server-side processing, cloud systems are now more robust and flexible than systems manufacturers can recreate on their own.

How can manufacturers ensure that everyone in their supply chain adheres to the numerous, wide ranging compliance regulations around corporate social responsibility?