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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.
don't break glass or even break a sweat it won't help. Do train your drivers to collect facts and take photos at the scene and resist the temptation to engage in incriminating babble with the highway patrol.
A recent survey of logistics professionals finds that although the term has been in common use for nearly a decade, most definitions of "supply chain management" have surprisingly little in common.
It is incumbent on distribution managers and executives to keep abreast of proposals and to let government regulators understand what tougher rules could really mean to their businesses and to the economy.
U.S. Customs has showed it was serious about enforcing new rules requiring 24 hours' notice before goods bound for the United States were loaded aboard ships in foreign ports.
Only days after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that 95 percent of its voting members had voted to authorize a strike, the union and the nation's largest unionized motor carriers averted the threatened stoppage and agreed on a new five-year contract.