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Managed Logistics Meets Five Challenges for Complex Supply Chain Operations

Blue Grace Logistics

Case Study. For example, if a focus on customer service has resulted in shipments that are too small for optimized handling, the right provider should have ideas for a hierarchy of batching decisions that will both protect the company’s reputation with customers and create new efficiencies. The Logistics Blog®. Whitepaper.

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How 3PLs Are Building More Collaborative Supply Chains

Blue Grace Logistics

By providing that level of cus­tomer support, 3PLs should be able to grow regardless of fluctuations in freight demand, Harris said, pointing to his own company as an example. BlueGrace, a freight brokerage and provider of managed transportation services, got its start in 2009 amid a particularly weak freight market.

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Shipping Chemicals: Choose a 3PL that is Responsible

Trinity Logistics

Trinity Logistics has been Responsible Care® certified since 2009. ” Examples of our Responsible Care® initiatives at our offices include: Battery recycling. Discover how our chemical customer, Albaugh, came to chose Trinity Logistics as their one source logistics provider in our case study. Active shooter programs.

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Shipping Chemicals: Choose a 3PL that is Responsible

Trinity Logistics

Trinity Logistics has been Responsible Care® certified since 2009. ” Examples of our Responsible Care® initiatives at our offices include: Battery recycling. Discover how our chemical customer, Albaugh , came to chose Trinity Logistics as their one source logistics provider in our case study. Download Now.

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The future of strategic mobility by air – reconciling expectations with the capacity to deliver

Logistics in War

1] In a further example, the US Air Force has devised concepts to fuel and load fighter jets using C-17 aircraft in austere environments. [2] 2] These three examples illustrate that fuel can be delivered and quickly, eliminating long download times and shrinking the amount of equipment required to move the fuel off airplanes. .”

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Supply Chain Management:Dynamic Pricing : Is it really worthy

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Case Studies. |. For example, a hotel might charge couple of hundred rupees more if the booking is for a weekend. For example, in case of the mobile handset industry its very common to increase the price of a new version of a product if the previous version has recorded high sales. December 2009. April 2009.

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Reshoring Optimism, But Not Much Else

GlobalTranz

While the economy has added some jobs since its nadir in 2009, labor statistics show that employment growth since 2010 has matched, not outpaced, growth of the labor force. Clearly, such articles represent cherry-picked case studies, not a national trend. labor force was 35 percent smaller than it is today).