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Flexible Logistics Solution Enables a High-Growth Company's Transition to Household Brand

Challenge: A high-growth food and beverage company needed a reliable, flexible distribution partner capable of managing explosive demand.

2-4 Hour Parts Availability for Global Storage Systems Support

Challenge: Our client is a global storage systems and service provider that supports essential corporate processes for its Fortune 100 customer install base. With service level agreements that are typically 4 hours or less in over 200 countries, they needed a reliable critical service parts logistics provider with Choice Logistics' global breadth and expertise that would help meet their customer demands.

Global Service Parts Field Stocking for 24x7 Networking Uptime

Challenge: Companies around the world entrust our client to keep their vital communications networks operating around the clock. Since managing over 70,000 forward stocked service parts internally detracted from their core competencies, they made a strategic decision to partner with Choice Logistics to ensure the highest level of service.

Keys to Fulfilling Multiple Channels From a Common DC

Jason Denmon, apparel industry executive with Fortna, offers advice on how companies can utilize a common distribution center for servicing multiple brands or channels - and why it's so tough to get it right.

The Retail Industry Enters the Connected Age

Analyst Insight: As traditional retailers feel the sting of Amazon's long tail whip, e-commerce and retail are merging into omni-channel strategies. In the Connected Age everyone is always connected to everything, always on, and location based. Just as the power shifted from manufacturer to retailer, the power in the retail channel has now shifted to the consumer who can buy anything from anyone, anytime, from anywhere. You better know your customer and your market to succeed. - Rich Sherman, Supply Chain Discipline Expert at Trissential

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Supply Chain Takes Its Power Position in the Retail Industry!

Analyst Insight: Retail is in a dramatic transformative phase. Consumers' multichannel access and shopping and web commerce vs. in-store shopping have retailers experimenting with many new approaches and technologies. Multi-merged channel expectations put fulfillment front and center as a major concern - no more relegating supply chain to the backwaters of retail management! - Ann Grackin, CEO, ChainLink Research

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Multichannel Fulfillment Is The New Normal

Analyst Insight: Multichannel fulfillment can be defined as optimizing the supply chain's capabilities to simultaneously receive and process orders from multiple ordering channels and fulfill them from the source that provides the highest level of consumer satisfaction and lowest fulfillment cost to the retailer. This model for fulfillment is both customer - and cost-driven and, therefore, the new de facto standard for the retail supply chain. - Joe Vernon, Manager of North America Supply Chain Technologies, Capgemini

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CargoSphere Unveils Update of Global Rate Network

CargoSphere, a cloud-based network for global freight-rate management for the ocean and air logistics industries, has developed version 4.0 of its CargoSphere Rate Network (CRN).

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How To Get Better Employee Buy-In for An LMS Implementation

The English language is full of potentially polarizing statements. But few are more likely to inspire mixed feelings among DC professionals than some facsimile of this: "Our facility is getting a labor management system."

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Evidence-based Medicine Has Pharma Manufacturers Taking More End-to-End Responsibility

Analyst Insight: Supply chain has often been an afterthought for pharmaceutical manufacturers. The patent cliff, increasing reliance on generics, and price pressure from payers all create considerable margin pressures on pharma companies as well. This forces them to pay closer attention to operational efficiencies, including the supply chain. However, less noticed is the impact that evidence-based medicine and outcome-driven payment strategies have, compelling pharmaceutical manufacturers to more closely manage their entire end-to-end chain, especially on the downstream side. - Bill McBeath, Chief Research Officer, ChainLink Research

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Optimizing Inventory to Respond to Demand Variability

Analyst Insight: While much has been written about demand driven, daily demand variability drives operations crazy. Most current inventory planning and optimization applications are disconnected from daily reality resulting in operations relying on custom spreadsheets and tribal knowledge to reconcile the gaps between plan and actual. In addition, the inventory planning applications are often disconnected from the optimization applications (if implemented at all), further exacerbating the operations conundrum. - Rich Sherman, Supply Chain Discipline Expert at Trissential

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Legacy Supply Chain Services Acquires Vitran SCO

Legacy Supply Chain Services has acquired Vitran Corporation Inc.'s Supply Chain Operation (Vitran SCO).

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