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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

One Connecticut restaurant is taking a unique approach to combatting the labor shortage: robot servers. FedEx earnings reflect labor shortage, supply chain woes. Ford, Redwood form circular supply chain for EV battery materials. This first started in 2014 when the company delivered 20 million packages.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. FedEx Corporation FedEx , previously known as Federal Express, is an American multinational freight company founded in 1971 as a system for urgent deliveries. Kuehne + Nagel Inc. Jacobs in 2011.