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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

CLX Logistics

For suppliers and mid- to large-sized companies, supply chain visibility serves as the foundation for strategic decisions and tactical improvements across the entire transportation network. Much like any other strategic initiative or company-wide process change, leadership must start with the end in mind.

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

Logistics Bureau

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. Deere & Company.

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

Logistics Bureau

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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The beginning of the end for the Paper Bill of Lading

Shipping and Freight Resource

If you look at many of the news items about the industry recently, there has been a certain buzz and intensity around the electronic bill of lading. In 1990, the CMI adopted the Rules for Electronic Bills of Lading in order to establish a mechanism for replacing the traditional negotiable paper bill of lading with an electronic equivalent.