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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

The success of a company has nothing to do with its form, whether as solely online retailer, a startup or a company evolving from brick and mortar retail. Last but not least, the largest retailer in the world is Walmart. Automation as key for growth. Then, what is crucial for the success of these companies?

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o9 Solutions and Genpact Partner to Digitally Transform Supply Chain of Eckes-Granini

o9 Solutions

The joint initiative digitizes end-to-end supply chain processes at Eckes-Granini and breaks down information silos within the organization. The implementation will reduce supply chain costs and inventories, eliminate excess inventory, waste and duplicative processes and enhance operating efficiencies to support long-term goals.

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Walmart’s Notion of Next Generation Online Customer Fulfillment Centers

Supply Chain Matters

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech , one of others to come, we highlight Walmart’s announced notions of next generation online customer fulfillment centers. Beyond the retailer’s existing 31 dedicated E-commerce fulfillment centers, 4,700 retail stores located across the U.S.

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

Talking Logistics

HighJump Software Announces Middle East Partnership. In 3PL news, XPO Logistics announced that it has acquired Optima Service Solutions, LLC, “a leading non-asset provider of last-mile logistics services for major retailers and manufacturers in the United States” for $26.6 Robinson Enters Switzerland Marketplace. UPS Sets 2014 Rates.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Opens Austria Office. to Provide Next-Generation Supply Chain Resiliency Capabilities. Maersk Container Industry to Launch New technology with Big Potential. In technology news, Resilinc announced the release of SupplyIntel 5.0 In technology news, Resilinc announced the release of SupplyIntel 5.0

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Inventory optimization: German DIY and Garden Center Chain HELLWEG Implements RELEX SCM-Software

RELEX Solutions

With more than 150 DIY and garden centers the HELLWEG group chose RELEX Solutions’ supply chain management software to manage its inventory and master two-stage replenishment via its distribution center. Until recently, the company used inventory management software that it had developed in-house.

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Global Status of the Physical Internet — A Vision for Sustainable, Secure, Resilient Supply Chains

Freightera

Interview with Benoit Montreuil, Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Physical Internet Center; Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. We work with technology ventures such as Clear Distribution in Montreal and farm-to-restaurant startup Farm’d.