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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

With a headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, the supply chain supports 600 stores in 50 states. Slowly the company built a supporting supply chain to support 400 retail stores by 2002. The Company won the JD Powers customer satisfaction award for the mattress segment for the past four out of five years.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 9-13, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Target invests in Minneapolis start-up that helps retailers monitor supply chains (Star Tribune). If Amazon has serious plans of realizing this idea, there’s already a company in the UK called Mole Solutions that has been working on creating “underground freight pipelines” since 2002. UPS Acquires Freightex Ltd. products (Reuters).