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Thinking in and Out of the Box (or Crate): Outsourced Logistics Solution
Not all logistics services are the same. Many do not pick up loose items and lack the capability to create specialized crating for hi-tech equipment and other costly items delivered worldwide. Here's what two companies found when they went searching for the best deal in logistics services for their products. (2008)

How Leading Retailers Achieve Vendor Performance Management and Compliance Optimization
Most retailers lack the ability to efficiently process their vendor-performance information into knowledge that allows them to avoid or recover unnecessary costs from inaccurate shipments. However, there's an outsourced solution that brings visibility into vendor operations, creating huge competitive advantage. Read what it did for Gottschalks and other retailers. (2006)

Elvis Presley Enterprises Finds an Outsourcer That Protects and Promotes Its Brand
Elvis Presley Enterprises is counting on its supplier's online expertise to turn its online sales numbers into a hunka, hunka, hunka burning change. (2005)

Amethyst's Logistics Help Keep Bedford Trucking Along
Bedford Genuine Parts, a popular truck brand in the UK, had to keep track of over 8,000 parts. Outsourcing its logistics reduced inventory and saved money. (2004)

$100,000 Fines and Changing Laws Encourage Importers to Outsource Customs Compliance: Part 1: Outsourcing Global Trade Management
Customs compliance today is daunting. Outsourcing gives importers access to technology that automates and integrates the process. (2004)

Direct Route to Competitive Advantage
One of the first value outcomes resulting from shifting ownership of Michelin North America's logistics process to outsourcing provider, TNT North America, was a $70Million cash flow increase in just one day. The money was then invested in critical strategic objectives. That was just the start of several transformational initiatives the two successfully achieved. (2004)

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Compliance: Finance's Bridge to the Enterprise - Read this paper from Capgemini to learn how leading CFOs view long term compliance hurdles as a bridge to bring their business together, streamline processes and reduce costs via process improvement, shared services and outsourcing. - December 2004

Agile Workforce, Agile Company - A special report from Convergys summarizes the key findings from its exclusive primary research study entitled "Workforce Agility: The New Frontier for Competitive Advantage," conducted by Saratoga/PricewaterhouseCoopers and the University of Michig... - December 2004

Dangerous Liaisons - The degree to which cultural elements in an outsourcing buyer and service provider's separate cultures are compatible is a primary key to success in outsourcing. The parties' degree of compatibility will enhance (or hinder) their ability to jointly solve p... - November 2004

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