For more than 60 years, freight and parcel shippers have used service companies to audit their shipping invoices and to make accurate payments to their carriers. However, due to the desire to maintain control of the process, some shippers would rather not outsource this function. In recent years, some audit and payment providers have developed software tools that allow shippers to bring these controls in-house.
TrackX Inc., a provider of radio frequency identification-enabled asset tracking and supply-chain management technology, has announced a partnership with Quest Solution Inc., an integrator of mobility systems for hardware manufacturers.
Retailing giant Walmart and global drug wholesaler McKesson would both like to improve their bottom lines and think that pooling their purchasing power for generic meds can help them do that.
Members of the International Food & Beverage Alliance (IFBA) have taken another step in progressing the commitments they first made to the World Health Organization in 2008 with the adoption of a worldwide plan to phase out industrially produced trans fatty acids (TFAs) in their products.
Voracious global demand for e-commerce fulfillment centers and distribution centers fueled a 2.8 percent year-over-year increase in prime logistics rents globally, led by double-digit percentage gains in U.S. coastal markets, according to CBRE Group Inc.'s inaugural Global Prime Logistics Rents report. Six of the top 10 markets with the fastest-growing prime logistics rents globally were in the U.S., led by Oakland, Calif., with a nearly 30 percent gain.
Digi International, a provider of products and services for machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, has introduced Digi Honeycomb.