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Collaborating with a third-party logistics management firm and an international material handling specialist, BMW runs a production parts warehouse in South Carolina that operates with the precision of a Z4 roadster.
For well over a decade, third-party service providers 3PLs have been the lost boys of logistics, with no trade association to call their own. Joel Hoiland hopes to change that by welcoming them into the International Warehouse Logistics Association.
He worked his way up the Quaker Oats ladder over three decades, but when he got to the top, he wanted more. So Cliff Lynch went over to the other side, using his vast experience to sell services to shippers like the one he once was.
Everything's changed in 20 years; yet nothing's changed in 20 years. Veteran DC consultant Ken Ackerman may rhapsodize about the potential of technology, but in the end, he says, the business is still all about the effective management of space and time.
Sony specifically, Sony Disc Manufacturing (SDM),the Optical Disc Division has concentrated in recent years on building a reputation as a strong supply chain leader in the delivery of its products and services.
Today's notoriously unforgiving consumers don't care why a product isn't available this minute. They'll just go elsewhere. Two industry giants have come up with breakthrough strategies to keep that from happening.