Considering the challenging domestic transportation environment shippers are facing, compounded by the race to stretch their supply chains around the global, we were hardly surprised to find that respondents to the Logistics Management’s 5th Annual Software Users Survey are realizing operational value in software investment. In turn, shippers report that they’re planning to purchase or upgrade this year in order to improve inventory visibility, order management, and collaboration with vendors and suppliers.

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The Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoR) and terminal operator ECT are constructing the new “Delta Barge Feeder Terminal” (DBF) at Maasvlakte. The terminal is specially designed for handling inland vessels and feeder vessels.

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Figures published this week on the growth in the Chinese economy and the related US trade deficit are worth pondering for their implications on the logistics sector worldwide.

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TDG, the UK based logistics provider, has announced changes in its senior management that appear to indicate issues with its strategy.

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Global logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel has continued to deliver good results. In the first quarter of 2007 turnover increased by 13.5 per cent to CHF 4,869.5 million (€2,967m) and profits (EBITDA) improved by 15.4 per cent to CHF 229.8 million (€140m).

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For supply chains to keep pace with an increasingly complex global market, innovation is essential. Professor Sheffi from MIT presented at the Supply Chain Conference “Crossroads 2007″ in Zaragoza his top ten of supply chain innovations

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KODAK recently filed a patent for a digestible radio frequency identification tag, which would monitor the ingestion of medicine, but Kodak won’t divulge its commercial intentions.

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Three years ago when Wal-Mart announced its famous supplier “mandate,” the business press was buzzing with stories of RFID (radio frequency identification). But after that initial surge of attention, which lasted about a year, the buzz seemed to die down. Companies began to step back and say, in effect, “Hey, what’s in this thing for me?” Supply Chain Management Review interviewed Bill Hardgave, director of the RFID Research center in Arkansas.

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The developments in the Customs and Indirect Tax areas are moving rapidly. Especially within the European Union (EU) there are a lot of developments in the Customs area which are poised to harmonize customs handling processes across the whole EU region.

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Some call it the weakest link in the supply chain, while others see it as an opportunity to save money and work smarter, better, and faster. Either way you look at it, transportation management has come to the forefront for shippers that are looking for more efficiencies, and it has pulled the Transportation Management Systems (TMS) sector right along with it.

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