CEO Richard Keyser

Domestic North American transportation and value-added warehousing were the bright spots for third-party logistics providers (3PLs) in 2011 while grim European and cooling Asian results produced flat international markets. Domestic transportation management net revenues increased 12.2% leading modest overall increases of 5.2% for gross revenue and 5.9% for net revenue. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the U.S. 3PL market since 1996 came in at 10.3%. For 2011, 3PL growth has been...Read Full Story

Gone are the days when your business partners and suppliers were conveniently grouped around the industrial park. Globalization has radically changed the way business is conducted. Managing an organization’s supply chain now includes a number of new variables, such as unknown and distant partners, longer lead times, and even less familiar political and economical landscapes, to name a few. Collaboration, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking are the new keys for success. But where can...Read Full Story

The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recently released its 2012 Risk Management Survey. According to the group’s press release, responses were gathered from 435 senior finance executives about risks that concern them now and those most likely to cause uncertainty over the next three years. Thirty-six percent of the senior financial executives surveyed expressed concerns over business operations risks such as supply chain and/or production disruptions among others. These supply...Read Full Story

The increased complexity of global supply chains has led to longer lead times, more pipeline inventory, and the need to control downstream and upstream logistics. In their most recent supply chain visibility survey, the growing supply chain complexity was the top business pressure (44%). This, in turn, has contributed to increased supply chain management costs. It is not surprising that in a period of global expansion and business turmoil that visibility is taking center stage. This report...Read Full Story

Supply Chain Management-Applications and Simulations Under the editorship of the renowned researcher Dr. Md. Mamun Habib, InTech recently published the book Supply Chain Management-Applications and Simulations, to be comprised in its already highly popular SCM collection of publications. Dr. Habib is presently working as Assistant Professor at Operations Management in Business Administration, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). Among other invaluable professional experience...Read Full Story