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Is the 3PL Industry Becoming Barbell Shaped?
Looking at the numbers and recent news, investors are betting big on the future of the logistics industry. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday

This Week in Logistics News (March 9-13, 2015)
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Solving Problems or Making Opportunities? (Thoughts on the New UPS Ad Campaign)
Almost five years ago, UPS introduced the general public to logistics when it launched its “We [Heart] Logistics” ad campaign, which helped raise public awareness

Procuring Logistics Services is Not the Same as Buying Paper Clips
In a Forbes blog post last week, Kate Vitasek highlighted an issue that continues to negatively affect 3PL-customer relationships: Procurement organizations looking to shift more and

This Week in Logistics News (March 2-6, 2015)
More than three years ago, my 14 year old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). After dealing with the initial shock and fear,

Amazon’s 3D Printing Trucks: A Quixotic Quest for Zero Delivery Time?
According to reports on 3DPrint.com and the Wall Street Journal, Amazon filed for a patent in Novmeber 2013 titled, “Providing Services Related to Item Delivery

What Colors Are This (Supply Chain) Dress?
As often happens on the Internet, especially in today’s social media era, a seemingly trivial post goes viral. Last week, it was What Colors Are

This Week in Logistics News (February 23-27, 2015)
What can you do with 102 inches of snow? You can bottle it and sell it, like one entrepreneur is doing. Or you can build
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