Archive for '3PL' Category
Fellows in the air - Brown & Yellow
17 June 2008The headline read: UPS plans air deal with DHL in US, the byline of which is,
UPS plans up to 10-year air deal with DHL within the US, expects $1B in added annual sales
Only, I don’t think that it is UPS’s plan - It sounds more like DHL going around with a bowl in hand. That’s […]
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Outsourcing Reverse Logistics
6 May 2008Outsourcing Reverse Logistics is a recent article posted Modern Materials Handling.com that has an interview with Tim Konrad of GENCO (my former employer) - it’s a niche for GENCO that it has been rather good at exploiting . He notes the following key points concerning reverse logistics as practiced by a 3PL:
Do it in volume
Establish […]
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Achieving World-Class Supply Chain Collaboration: Managing the Transformation
4 October 2007Achieving World-Class Supply Chain Collaboration: Managing the Transformation is a new report available from CAPS Research (free registration required) published by authors - Stanley Fawcett (BYU), Gregory Magnan (Seattle U) and Jeffrey Ogden (Airforce Inst of Tech). First off, this report is a research oriented report and so it is a virtual gold mine of […]
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How IBM makes radical collaboration work?
10 September 2007How IBM makes radical collaboration work is a special report that BusinessWeek has up at its website. Since I work at the site that forms the ground zero of this radical collaborative venture at and through IBM, I am at the vantage of seeing this happen not so much in evaluating how each of these […]
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More DTCI links…
30 August 2007The interest in DTCI (Defense Transportation Coordinator Initiative) related material has been surprising. So, I thought that I’d post a roundup of links about it:
DTCI Program Office
DTCI - the beginnings - What the DoD was trying to achieve through the DTCI?
DTCI incorporates lessons from its pilot program - Outlines some of the reasons why […]
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High level overview of DTCI
29 August 2007If you wanted to know more about DTCI (Defense Transportation Coordinator Initiative), you might want to check out this public link from SDDC - Defense Transportation Coordination Inititative Overview Briefing that provides a high-level summary presentation of the scope of the DTCI contract.
What I’d cue you into are the following slides:
Slide 4 which […]
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DTCI Contract awarded to …
29 August 2007Menlo Worldwide. Menlo Worldwide is the winner of the DTCI contract awarded by the US Dept. of Defence (DoD) for all Continental US (CONUS) logistics. DTCI is a huge contract not only to win (which was the easy part) but it’s going to be a challenging one to execute as well,
Under the contract, which is […]
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