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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The following five mini case studies explore a few high-profile companies that have managed to sustain their supply chain cost-reduction efforts and keep expenses under control. In fact, during 2007 and 2008, Starbucks leadership began to have severe doubts about the company’s ability to supply its 16,700 outlets.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

• The growing army of robots used in distribution. It’s not even really that clean just in robots for manufacturing and distribution. Distribution is a different matter. We are approaching, I believe, an inflection point in distribution robotics. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.