According to a Reuters news report, Ford plans to “identify 850 suppliers eligible for its future business by the end of this year, down from 1,683 suppliers last year.” Tony Brown, Ford’s group vice president of global purchasing, is quoted as saying, “We’ve accelerated our efforts…to rationalize the supply base in order to get to profitable growth for all. There is simply too much capacity in the system. We… Continue reading
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” (aka Waxman-Markey) by a 219 to 212 vote (only 8 Republicans voted in support of the bill, while 44 Democrats voted against it). The bill now goes to the Senate where its fate is highly uncertain at the moment.
I’ve written extensively on this topic in the past…
You won’t find Amazon.com on any “Top 25 3PLs” list, but the company is a leading 3PL in my book (no pun intended).
I recently read a Businessweek article on “customer service champs” and Amazon.com was ranked number one. The article highlights how Amazon not only focuses on providing consumers with the best possible buying experience, it also strives to provide merchants who sell on the site with… Continue reading
My colleague Adrian Gonzalez and I are both fans of network-centric, software-as-a-service (SaaS) transportation management systems (TMS). We see advantages in terms of on-boarding carriers and other trading partners, data quality management, and the potential for benchmarking (see “More Questions About Software-as-a-Service“). But as I think more about Duncan Watts’ “Too Complex to Exist” article (which I highlighted in “‘Power Curves’ and Supply Chain Risk Management“), I… Continue reading
I read an article by Bob Trebilcock in Modern Materials Handling titled “Automation: Grocery giant Kroger changes the distribution game,”and I was amazed by what Kroger has accomplished, and the risks the company has taken.
Kroger implemented an automation system “that can receive and put-away full pallets, then break them down and rebuild them into store-ready mixed pallets according to how they will be put away on the… Continue reading
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