Many companies have collaborative planning and forecasting processes with suppliers and manufacturing partners, but very few companies translate demand and production forecasts into transportation
Last week at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference, I led a discussion session titled “At the Intersection of Social and Business Networks” with about fifty
The collapse of the garment factory in Bangladesh last week, which killed at least 705 workers and injured thousands of others, has put a spotlight
In this episode, Chris O’Brien, Senior Vice President at C.H. Robinson, discusses several important factors necessary to calculate total landed cost, and just as important,
Lots of interesting news this week related to e-commerce fulfillment and same-day delivery, so let’s get right to it. Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver
The “reshoring” of manufacturing operations from China and elsewhere to the United States continues to make headlines. Back in December 2012, for example, Apple announced
