University of North Texas. Charlie Wilgus @Lucas_Group Charlie Wilgus is the General Manager of the Manufacturing & Supply Chain Executive Search Division at Lucas , North America’s premier executive search firm. Metrics such as Perfect Order Rate tell businesses a lot. MORE

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. MORE

Mobile apps can generate reports and monitor performance metrics. “It’s become the norm to…” Send data and documents to and from the cloud, to use e-mail or public messaging services as well as download and transfer data. MORE

We found that the better the level of alignment, the more likely it is that companies are achieving their objectives for cost reduction, customer service, and other metrics,” explains Bruce Tompkins, executive director of the Consortium and author of the report. MORE

BDO is a leading provider of assurance, tax, and financial advisory services and is providing the report available for download here (PDF, 36 pp., The BDO study found that manufacturers are divided on the metrics they rely on to evaluate their supply chains. MORE

At LogiChem, attendees interacted through roundtables and panel discussions on topics that identified best practices around inventory and supply chain metrics, third party logistics provider (3PL) management, rail logistics strategy to combat the driver shortage dilemma, and a host of other topics. MORE

</h3></blockquote> <p>The information collected in these reports is designed to help supply chain and logistics professionals make more informed decisions about their warehouse strategy, and to establish baseline metrics for the on-demand warehousing industry to help it grow and mature.</p> The information in this report is based on data from our marketplace, which consists of more than 400 warehouse partners across North America.</p> MORE

Historically, we’ve done this through free to download whitepapers and reports but have increasingly looked to webinars where key decision makers and influential stakeholders can share best practice in their industry directly with the market between events as well. . MORE