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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. As I stated back in December , in response to a Reuters article highlighting how U.S.

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The WSJ Drucker Management 250 List: NC State’s Input into the Ratings

NC State SCRC

Professor Rob Handfield met with Lawrence Crosby during that period, and discussions focused primarily on how supply chain innovation and social responsibility metrics would figure into the list of top companies. Metrics related to spend management, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

Supply Chain Metrics!?!? The metrics used by Handfield & de Oliveira’s study use well-established, industry-standard metrics for supply chain management. True, 10-K ’s andother standard financial filings provide metrics that are often used when comparing performance between companies. A storm is brewing.