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CAN WE HAVE A WORD WITH YOU? If you are involved in furniture logistics, Inbound Logistics editors would like to talk to you for a special article on Furniture Logistics coming in March 2008. Click here to send an email with your name, title and company name. FEATURED ARTICLES  H.O.W. - Help Is On The Way!Need to know the best way to select an ocean carrier? Outsource retail logistics? Locate a contingency port? You've come to the right place. Check out the latest installments in this exclusive compendium of best logistics practices, designed to fulfill your need for up-to-date, practical information. For a digital version, click here  NASCO: North America'sSupercorridor Coalition The multimodal transportation network known as NASCO runs through the heart of trade in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Find out what makes this corridor unique and why companies are banding together to support it. For a digital version, click here Expedited Shipping: "We Need It Yesterday!" As shippers struggle to meet customer demands and expedited carriers manage a whirlwind of different cargo types, load sizes, delivery times, and distances, business becomes a blur. But that's just the way they like it. Retail Channel Convergence: Stock 'Til It Drops Changing consumer patterns have U.S. retailers checking out a new supply chain strategy: channel convergence. By integrating brick and mortar, catalog, and online inventory streams, sellers are efficiently scaling product to demand and keeping shoppers tuned in to their virtual stores. ADVERTISEMENT
 TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS L.I.T. Toolkit: Making The Right Connection Integrating transportation management with vendor compliance enables Bon-Ton Stores to capture vital shipment data at point-of-origin, thereby gaining better control of and visibility into inbound product movement. IT Matters: Technology Collaboration Enables Visibility and Security CDSV empowers trading partners with complete visibility to the condition, status, and location of international shipments, says Scott Pollyea, IP business development manager innovation and strategy, IBM Integrated Supply Chain Operations. DC Solutions: Giving Pharmacists A Voice Smith Drug, an independent pharmaceutical wholesaler, finds easy productivity pickings with the implementation of a new voice-directed picking system prescribed by Vocollect. ADVERTISEMENT
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