Canada

Direct-Ship Vendor Solutions Mean Faster E-Commerce Deliveries, Improved Efficiency

March 9, 2020

To meet today's complex fulfillment requirements, many e-commerce businesses are turning to direct-ship strategies — whereby vendors maintain control of inventory and order fulfillment.

Correcting Errors in U.S. Customs Entry Filings

March 9, 2020

Purolator International

Customs compliance can be difficult, and mistakes happen. But U.S. Customs and Border Protection offers several paths for rectifying errors.

Virus Makes Lobsters So Cheap That Sellers Face a Fatal Blow

March 6, 2020

Bloomberg

The coronavirus outbreak is turning one luxury treat reserved for special occasions into a meal bargain hunters can afford.

Costume Manufacturer Wins Back Customers With Purolator Fulfillment Solution

March 4, 2020

Purolator Internatonal

Challenge: Habitually late deliveries from a New York-based costume manufacturer caused a number of Canadian retailers to drop the product line. The manufacturer faced withdrawing from the Canadian market altogether.

Pipeline Protests Cripple Canadian Railways

February 14, 2020

Bloomberg

Protests against a natural gas pipeline are crippling Canada’s railways — key economic arteries in the sprawling, trade-dependent nation — and prompting cries of “insanity” and “ecoterrorism” from business leaders.

Importing Cheap Drugs From Canada Could Cause Shortages

January 27, 2020

Bloomberg

The Canadian federal government and private organizations are trying to get the U.S. to back off from the importation plan.

VIDEO

Watch: Innovations in Delivering Home Healthcare in Canada

November 22, 2019

SupplyChainBrain

Erie St. Claire Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), a provider of home healthcare in Ontario, transforms an inefficient, paper-based purchasing and delivery system with the help of Transform Shared Services Organization (SSO).

CN Rail Strike Threatens Canadian Oil, Grain Cargo

CN Rail Strike Squeezes Transport of Canadian Oil, Grain Cargo

November 21, 2019

Bloomberg

Conductors and yard operators at Canada’s largest railway walked off the job after failing to reach an agreement with the company over issues including working conditions and drug benefits.

Case Study

A Model for Improving Home Healthcare Supply Chains in Ontario

November 12, 2019

SupplyChainBrain

The megatrend in healthcare today is a focus on home care, bypassing the hospital and clinic. So it only makes sense that a Canadian health network would be looking to transform its supply chain toward that end.

Order-Centric TMS: Managing the Rising Pressures of the Modern Supply Chain

Order-Centric TMS: Managing Rising Pressures of the Modern Supply Chain

October 3, 2019

MP Objects

In recent years, the supply chain industry has undergone significant changes. With the advent of e-commerce, businesses are under increasing pressure to keep pace with growing customer demands, shorter product lifecycles, and global competition. Multi-enterprise business networks have been an effective first step to meeting these challenges and leveraging the vast potential of this new landscape.

Canada

The latest supply chain news, analysis, trends and best practices for companies operating in Canada. Learn how businesses are optimizing supply chain and logistics performance across Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories - addressing a range of challenges such as varying provincial regulations, labeling and packaging requirements, customs and tax laws and government controlled exchange rates.