There’s no way around it: Supply chain executives are going to have to flatten the hierarchy if they want to attract and retain the best workers.

Around half of all last-mile related costs are expended in the last few hundred feet because of challenges in finding the exact delivery location and, worse, deliveries fail altogether because the person making the delivery cannot find the exact right location.

The delivery giant’s shares fell on Sept. 16 in the biggest one-day percentage drop since FedEx went public in 1978. 

Joel Dunkel, president of Event Evolution Management, provides an advance look at Parcel Forum '22, to be held in Chicago October 10-12.

The push by consumer-goods suppliers to reach shoppers directly is opening a new market for supply-chain technology providers, says The Wall Street Journal.

The people on the warehouse floor, the folks who pick and pack your orders, and the men and women who drive the trucks that make your deliveries all know the problems that are making your business less efficient than it could be. You should encourage them to tell you.

As supply chain managers face unprecedented challenges, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are becoming a source of relief.

With the concept of a “peak season” melting away during the pandemic, Coyote Logistics sought a better way to manage UPS drivers at the parcel giant’s hub facilities.

United Parcel Service’s profit and revenue keep rising even as the number of packages moving through its network keeps declining.

To successfully ride the bucking growth of e-commerce, shippers and logistics service providers should avoid assuming that consumers want everything super-fast.