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Ryder is Life of the Party for Bacardi U.S.A.

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For Transportation Managers, The Devil Is in the Details

All it takes is one small slip-up to undermine a company's supply chain. Here are 10 tips on how to optimize transportation programs, and avoid the catastrophic • Fourth in the Best Practices series.

MIT Professor Sees Promise In Supply-Chain Modeling

A conversation with Jeremy Shapiro, professor of operations research and management emeritus in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.

Discount Retailer Doesn't Skimp On Supply-chain Investments

Fast-growing Dollar General Corp. undercuts Wal-Mart on prices, even as it spends heavily on new systems to enhance transportation, warehousing and supplier links.

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Time Warner Books Creates a Showpiece for Distribution

Improvements in warehousing and transportation have created a profit center at the publisher's centralized distribution facility.

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CTM: Collaborating To Weed Out Transportation Inefficiency

With a re-energized effort under way to formalize Collaborative Transportation Management, lots of people are looking at ways to make carriers part of the collaborative process.

Naturally Fresh Dresses Its Supply Chain With New Capabilities

Rapid growth, Y2K issues and the need to better control and trace inventory all led salad dressing manufacturer Naturally Fresh to implement an enterprise system that included robust supply-chain capabilities.

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New Developments In Visibility Go Beyond Just Supply-chain Event Management

The first generation of SCEM vendors did not offer enough value to earn a permanent place in the marketplace, but a new wave of vendors with expanded capabilities promises to do a lot better.

Snapple Found Handling Logistics In-house Left A Sour Taste

With industry giants invading the product niche that it created, the beverage maker turned to logistics outsourcing as a means to achieve a higher level of customer service, cost control and data integrity. Its attention now is focused on innovation and flavors.

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Clarity Brought to Window Maker's Supply Chain

Unreliable advance planning in the building trades, multiple manufacturing sites and the fragile nature of its products were just some of the logistics challenges faced by Pella Corp. It needed a total set of logistics solutions throughout its widespread enterprise.

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Hitachi Data Moves to the Heartland for Faster Distribution

For 20 years, the high-end data storage system and server assembler had used DCs on each coast. But a self-imposed $1m penalty for unavailability of parts required a faster logistics network. Indianapolis was the answer.

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GE: A Company-Wide Push for Excellence

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