Supply Chain & Transportation

Together they add nearly 478,000 square feet to UPS’s global network of supply-chain services. The company now offers 528 facilities with nearly 31 million square feet of space. Its Hebron campus, which has access to 62 percent of the U.S. population within two days via UPS Ground, and 64 percent via UPS Freight, has been expanded by 151,000 square feet. In Mira Loma, an hour from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and five minutes from Ontario Airport, UPS now includes an additional 309,000 square feet. And in Calgary, it has added 18,000 square feet of cGMP (current good manufacturing...

Profits as Usual Nicely Out Run Volume Growth; Union Pacific Continues to Lead the Pack

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Registered Brokers Numbers May be Cut in Half, to 10,000 or So, but Currently Active Ones Likely to Stay in Business or Become Agents for Larger Firms

Winning CRM strategies focus the right responses on the priorities of the right customers. Everybody created equal doesn’t work for customer success. Companies just don’t have enough resources to provide phenomenal service to every single customer related to every single SKU. It may sound like a sacrilege, but, when resources are focused on the best profit-generating customers (not as a percentage, but in actual number of total dollars), both revenues and profits grow dramatically. And at the same time, the drama that disrupts customer relationships drops off to virtually nothing. Simply...

“2014 is starting off with high demand from e-commerce and other users who are in the market for large, sophisticated space, and lots of it,” said Craig Meyer, president of Industrial Brokerage at JLL. “This will make 2014 the 'year of the distribution center.' Modern space with proximity to population centers and a robust logistics infrastructure will dominate the industrial real estate sector in 2014.”
JLL anticipates the overall national vacancy rate will settle at a cyclical low of 7.5 percent in 2014. Here are four trends driving this momentum:
1. Demand is spreading into secondary...

Considerable publicity has surrounded manufacturing as a “savior,” with the potential of bringing economies of entire countries back from the brink of the last financial crisis. Output and asset efficiency have increased while waste and response times have been reduced.
But what about the supply chain? Clearly its role is intertwined within the improved productivity and product proliferation now virtually expected by consumers in the automotive, consumer goods and life sciences industries. Yet most of the public discussion has focused on the “end producer” or the manufacturer that is...

The upcoming Panama Canal expansion will have a substantial impact on the U.S. supply chain and its efficiencies, writes Gary Forger, Material Handling Industry of America.