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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
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ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 21 | November 15, 2015 Sun-Maid Growers of California has selected PRISM Team Services to handle distribution of its products throughout Northern California and parts of Nevada and Utah. A member of the American Chain of Warehouses…
ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 21 | November 15, 2015 Since the Supreme Court turned back the last serious legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, employers can expect to face a slew of consequences, including postponed deadlines coming due and Obama…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 20 | October 15, 2015 The National Retail Federation’s Holiday Consumer Spending Survey predicts families will spend an average of $805.65 on food items, decorations, gifts and more over the holiday season, the highest amount…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 20 | October 31, 2015 Third-party logistics providers’ relationships with their customers are being utterly transformed by capacity constraints, mergers and acquisitions, and technological innovations, new research shows.…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 19 | October 15, 2015 The National Retail Federation believes the average consumer celebrating Halloween will spend $74.34 this year, compared with $77.52 in 2014, with total spending on Halloween seen reaching $6.9 billion.…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 19 | October 15, 2015 The struggle to attract and retain drivers in the intermodal industry has gotten so bad that sessions dealing with the issue took up a big chunk of the agenda at this year’s Intermodal Expo. Part of the…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 18 | September 30, 2015 UPS announced expansion of its Access Point Network, a web of local businesses where consumers can drop off and pick up packages, to 100 cities, bringing the total to 8,000 locations in the U.S. and…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 18 | September 30, 2015 On Sept. 7, Labor Day, President Obama signed the most recent in more than a dozen Executive Orders imposing federal contractor labor rules, this one requiring they offer employees health insurance. The…
David Sparkman, Editor Volume 3, Issue 17 September 15, 2015 The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Jan. 5, 2011 appointment of Lafe Solomon as Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board was illegal. Unfortunately, the decision…
Employer Joint Liability Creates Turmoil The National Labor Relations Board decided an employee leasing company and its customer share joint liability for labor law violations, because at some point in the future, the customer could possibly exercise direct…
While, recent economic data may be mixed and the outlook murky, the warehouse real estate picture depicts a continuing boom in supply chain management services. One recent trend manifesting itself is the move to smaller distribution centers, driven by the…
The recent labor troubles and continuing congestion at West Coast Ports and the prospect of bigger containerships coming through the Panama Canal next year is driving traffic to East Coast ports, but only some will prosper in the future. “Some regional ports…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 21 | November 15, 2015 Sun-Maid Growers of California has selected PRISM Team Services to handle distribution of its products throughout Northern California and parts of Nevada and Utah. A member of the American Chain of Warehouses…
ACWI | Volume 3, Issue 21 | November 15, 2015 Since the Supreme Court turned back the last serious legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, employers can expect to face a slew of consequences, including postponed deadlines coming due and Obama…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 20 | October 15, 2015 The National Retail Federation’s Holiday Consumer Spending Survey predicts families will spend an average of $805.65 on food items, decorations, gifts and more over the holiday season, the highest amount…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 20 | October 31, 2015 Third-party logistics providers’ relationships with their customers are being utterly transformed by capacity constraints, mergers and acquisitions, and technological innovations, new research shows.…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 19 | October 15, 2015 The National Retail Federation believes the average consumer celebrating Halloween will spend $74.34 this year, compared with $77.52 in 2014, with total spending on Halloween seen reaching $6.9 billion.…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 19 | October 15, 2015 The struggle to attract and retain drivers in the intermodal industry has gotten so bad that sessions dealing with the issue took up a big chunk of the agenda at this year’s Intermodal Expo. Part of the…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 18 | September 30, 2015 UPS announced expansion of its Access Point Network, a web of local businesses where consumers can drop off and pick up packages, to 100 cities, bringing the total to 8,000 locations in the U.S. and…
ACWI Advance | Volume 3, Issue 18 | September 30, 2015 On Sept. 7, Labor Day, President Obama signed the most recent in more than a dozen Executive Orders imposing federal contractor labor rules, this one requiring they offer employees health insurance. The…
David Sparkman, Editor Volume 3, Issue 17 September 15, 2015 The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Jan. 5, 2011 appointment of Lafe Solomon as Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board was illegal. Unfortunately, the decision…
Employer Joint Liability Creates Turmoil The National Labor Relations Board decided an employee leasing company and its customer share joint liability for labor law violations, because at some point in the future, the customer could possibly exercise direct…
While, recent economic data may be mixed and the outlook murky, the warehouse real estate picture depicts a continuing boom in supply chain management services. One recent trend manifesting itself is the move to smaller distribution centers, driven by the…
The recent labor troubles and continuing congestion at West Coast Ports and the prospect of bigger containerships coming through the Panama Canal next year is driving traffic to East Coast ports, but only some will prosper in the future. “Some regional ports…