Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: Logistics Outsourcing Start-Ups Are High-Stakes Projects Where Managing Change is a Fine Art

Topics:
Evaluation
Tags:
Business Operations,
Logistics,
Penton Media Inc.,
Supply Chain
Source:
Penton Media

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Overview: When companies decide to outsource any logistics activity -- such as running a warehouse, taking over a private fleet, or even directing an entire supply chain -- to a third-party logistics firm (3PL) they want it to finish quickly. The pressure to succeed in these logistics-outsourcing projects is intense, and the risks are high. The paper discusses the process flow charts and tools for managing warehousing and transportation that can improve service response time, improve visibility of orders, and so on.

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Format: HTML | Date: Oct 1999 | Pages: 1


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