A survey of 250 UK supply chain, warehouse and distribution centers indicated that every worker loses 15 minutes of productivity during each eight hour shift. For a company with just 50 warehouse employees, this adds up to 2,899 hours a year. This is solely based on ineffective warehouse processes. Most managers have been assigned to […]

A global poll conducted by SCM World revealed Amazon’s supply chain is ‘more admired’ than its competitor, Apple Inc., in nearly all supply chain aspects. The poll of 1,136 executives rated Amazon and Apple on four supply chain features: agility, collaboration, execution and innovation. Apple beat Amazon in innovation, but 54% surveyed believed Amazon came […]

Capgemini recently released their 2012 3PL (Third-Party Logistics) study which assessed the  3PL market. In this 52 page study,  1561 shippers and 697 3PL executives were surveyed about strategic assessment, electronics, emerging markets, and talent management. The findings are checked for academic validity and it found some interesting insights into the current use of 3PL.

In a recent survey, 84% of respondents said that the returns process is very to extremely important in their decision to continue to shop with a company. Over 30% responded that particular companies are more likely to make shipping mistakes. A similar percentage said mistakes are more likely to occur with a large retailer than […]

Though the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) December 2012 Semiannual Economic Forecast showed improvement in the U.S. that will continue through 2013 and growth in 17 manufacturing sectors, we should expect to see small spikes in supply chain and logistics cost for each transportation sector this year. Because carriers will work to standardize procedures for […]