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Breaking Free: The history of the owner-operator in trucking

Overdrive Online

From fighting for freedom to haul in its early days to stressing smart business practices later, Overdrive has championed the owner-operator’s concerns. Here, a history of owner-op business, from 1960-2011, with a special request for you.

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3PL Lessons: Plan Ahead for a Year Like 2011

Apparel Logistics

Mother Earth has not been fooling around the past couple years, and 2011 was no exception. Tornadoes. Drought-fueled wildfires. Hurricanes (in. New England?). Not to mention the natural disasters of mind-numbing scale that happened abroad like the Japanese tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

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Supply Chain Management:The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying.

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The Holiday Apparel Retailer Rush is Here

Apparel Logistics

Here’s an all-encompassing example of how far folks are willing to go to get top-quality products like your company’s apparel this time of year: A southern California woman turned herself in to authorities as the person who pepper sprayed video-game shoppers in a Walmart during Black Friday's shopping frenzy, Los Angeles police said Saturday.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.

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Go Global. Our Apparel Supply Chain Management Services Can Help.

Apparel Logistics

Our third party logistics services are about all about helping you get the right product to the right place at the right time. Sometimes, however, it’s just more affordable and more efficient to set up parts of your supply chain outside the great ol’ USA. Set sail with us and explore what’s waiting for you. From São Paulo to Shenzen to the South China Sea, the world is bursting with willing markets, hard-working labor pools, and opportunities to build a brand infrastructure tha

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Our (158,000 Square-Foot) Apparel Warehouse is Your House

Apparel Logistics

Every supply chain needs an anchor. No matter how many moving parts you’re effectively able to string together, at some point good home cookin’ and space to put your feet up is needed. Welcome to Lewisville, Texas. Our home. Our community. Our heart and soul. The engine powering all of our logistics and supply chain management services. Come on in to our North Dallas apparel distribution center — 158,000-square feet of state-of-the-art, automated efficiency and apparel warehous

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Information Matters in Apparel Logistics: How to Close the Feedback Loop

Apparel Logistics

If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, an opaque link shrouded in mystery, confusion and rigidity isn’t going to pull your company very far. Feedback is information, and information is the power that welds your supply system into a transparent, flexible, self-reinforcing chain. This is true for any business, but it’s especially true in apparel logistics.

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3PL Case Study: Maker & Company

Apparel Logistics

Maker & Company is refined, yet irreverent. It nods to the finest menswear traditions, yet unique. The company is pioneering a better type of men’s sportswear, yet it’s doing so through a classic approach to clothes making. It’s for gentlemen, nay, tastemakers who’d rather live a life that’s more than a little bit rugged, yet who care about things like fit, color palettes and design while doing so.

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Why Speed to Market & Supply Chain Efficiency Matter in Fashion Logistics

Apparel Logistics

Take the hippest, most well-conceived outfit you can design, put it in front of the perfect target market, start reaping enormous profits. and the outfit will still fade out of style within a year or two. This gives you two choices: You can hold onto garments for 25 years until they become "vintage.” Or you can invest in the kind of equipment, market intelligence and supply chain efficiency needed for today’s attention deficit generation. [ More.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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The Strange and Exotic World of Apparel Logistics Foreign Trade Zones

Apparel Logistics

Strange customs. Unfamiliar languages. New scents. Smiling, friendly people encouraging you to step inside and talk business. Ahhh — the strange and exotic experience of life outside of America. somewhere in the middle of Texas, Nebraska, New Mexico or upstate New York. Okay fine: Foreign Trade Zones aren’t quite the same thing as a market in Marrakesh.

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Chooze Shoes: The Apparel Logistics Group Customer Case Study

Apparel Logistics

Chooze Shoes sneers at conventional business wisdom and kicks cynicism in the gut with a (very colorful) size two ballet shoe. Their approach flies in the face of everything you’d normally do to make your business model efficient and in the black. As anyone in business knows, it’s much easier to stay profitable when you can be single-minded about squeezing every ounce of productivity possible out of your products and services.

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Beyond Ordinary Fashion Logistics: Two Keys to Boosting Value

Apparel Logistics

Whatever your company needs in third party fashion logistics — from apparel distribution to merchandising to supply chain management to quality control — we can do it. But a long list of 3PL services isn't alone going to boost any company's value. Here at The Apparel Logistics Group, there are several factors that make our extensive capabilities robust, ripe and ready to enhance yours. [ More.

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Apparel Is In Our DNA

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Former baseball players make better baseball coaches. The best chefs are usually foodies at heart. The best manufacturers tend to understand what they're crafting at a level only possibly if they've been customers of such finished products in the past. Here’s the point: [ More.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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Meet the Supply Chain Superheroes: Radiating Valor, Fighting Villains, and Boosting Bottom Lines

Apparel Logistics

Welcome back! If you’re reading this blog just to learn some of the basics about our services, our company profile, and a handful of business statistics outlining exactly how much our custom apparel supply chain services can streamline your company’s efficiency and boost its bottom line — then, well, let’s get this out of the way: [ More.

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Raise the Curtain for The Apparel Logistics Group’s New Fashion Logistics Blog

Apparel Logistics

Applause, applause, and bravo! Welcome to our new corporate blog! Here you can find the latest and greatest news on our people, our products, and our process — from industry updates and trends to interviews with our super hero staff (yes, there are some wildly interesting people working around here!) [ More.

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Breaking Free: The history of the owner-operator in trucking

Overdrive Online

From fighting for freedom to haul in its early days to stressing smart business practices later, Overdrive has championed the owner-operator’s concerns. Here, a history of owner-op business, from 1960-2011, with a special request for you.

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Supply Chain Management:The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Supply Chain Management:Retailer Multi-Channel Operations.

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Supply Chain Management:The Role of Information Sharing in.

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Supply Chain Management:Order Fulfillment From The Dark Stores

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Scheduling 'Order Release Process' Intelligently - Infosys Blogs

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Supply Chain Management:Fulfillment Options - Recent Trends

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Delivering the Goods in Online Grocery Business - Infosys Blogs

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Layaway and Buy Now Pay Later Payment Options! - Infosys Blogs

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Supply Chain Management:Demand Planning in CPG industry.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Will "Profitable To Promise" be Viable In Retail Industry - Infosys Blogs

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Supply Chain Management:Use of Rapid Application Development.

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Supply Chain Management:Fraud vs Customer Centricity - III

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