Global Trade Management Leader Honored as Top Innovator Partner in the Apparel Industry Management Dynamics, a leading provider of Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions, announces that Apparel Magazine has named its customer Perry Ellis as a 2011 “Top Innovator,” and Management Dynamics as a “Top Innovator Partner.” “Perry Ellis was chosen as a Top [...]
There are a handful of shipping lanes in the world as vital as the Suez Canal, which serves as a linchpin for East and West trade. The next shortest route for shippers traveling from Asia to Europe or vice-versa is around Cape Horn at the bottom of Africa, adding a week of time and costs [...]
Companies who use a manual system to select freight carriers could be paying thousands more than they need to be, and not even realize it. Carriers’ delivery estimates and prices from published rating guides can sometimes be inaccurate. Representatives at the company may have certain carriers that they favor, but those may not necessarily be [...]
Shippers are increasingly turning to freight forwarders for ocean, air and logistics needs. An IFW article reported this morning that as carrier relationships are becoming more complex, forwarders have more than doubled their share of the container market in the past 20 years. According to a report from Drewry Supply Chain Advisers, which was cited in [...]
Here is some more information I found on a topic I blogged about a couple of weeks ago: Crisis in freight markets creates risks for retailers. This article from Manufacturing & Logistics IT points out that the increased risks retailers are facing this year due to the instability of the freight industry makes it more [...]
According to a report released recently by American Shipper and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), automated transportation management systems are delivering a return on investment, as users are operating with more efficiency, increasing productivity, reducing cost and utilizing environmentally sound methods of transport, when compared to companies who handle their international transportation management manually. [...]
The holiday shopping season has officially begun (confirmed yesterday, when I saw my first Christmas-themed commercial for the year), and retailers have already started stocking up. After last year’s disappointing sales and excess inventory, and sales being weaker than expected in September, retailers and manufacturers are likely to err on the side of caution when [...]
As we all know, transportation management deals mainly with moving goods from point A to point B in the least expensive and most efficient way possible. However the transportation management function of an organization plays an integral role in other functions, including customer service, cargo security, environmental sustainability, and finance. In Logistics Management’s most recent [...]
Although analysts are reporting that economic recovery is just around the corner, there are still significant risks associated with this recovery. Companies who have laid off employees and reduced spending in areas such as IT investment will face a tough road ahead. In a recent study done by AMR Research, 44 percent of executives surveyed believe the biggest risk [...]
As of late, economic conditions have forced carriers to reduce their rates to extremely low levels. Seemingly good news for shippers. However, now many carriers are saying that these rates have sunk to levels that are unsustainable, and they will be forced to raise them again in coming weeks. This could cause a couple of [...]
