Outsourced Logistics -- The Global Supply Chain Authority -- brings together a community of supply chain and logistics professionals to inspire and drive their quest for strategic, management, and operational excellence in the domestic and global trade process.

OL explores and carefully examines the issues, trends, news, services, products, and best practices for senior logistics executives who care passionately about domestic and international logistics, infrastructure, and capacity.

Mission: Outsourced Logistics connects the decision-makers of Buyers and Providers of third-party logistics (3PL) services to foster dialogue on the issues, trends, technologies and business practices in supply chain management. 

Audience: Outsourced Logistics (formerly know as Logistics Today) is the only BPA-audited magazine dedicated exclusively to serving top level executives and managers who are buyers and providers of outsourced logistics services

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Features
18 Logistics Services
My Place or Yours?
Finding the right location and supplier to outsource warehousing and distribution eases logistics concerns.

22 Operations
How Outsourcing Saved Christmas
Toys R Us learned getting on-line fulfillment right is not a game.

26 Global Markets
Relationships Go Beyond Metrics
Keeping an outsourced relationship on track includes spending time with the people who make things happen.

30 Field Report
Strategic Planning: An Executive's Aid
Working with senior management of manufacturing companies to achieve results that provide a competitive advantage.

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EDITORIAL: For Sale

Distressed properties available at bargain prices. Included in the current market basket of US assets for sale could be some infrastructure-related holdings of AIG like the port terminal and stevedoring operations AIG’s Ports America Inc. acquired in 2007 after DP World was forced to divest of US-based assets acquired in its purchase of P&O Ports.

When the US government effectively nationalized AIG through a loan agreement that gives it roughly an 80%
stake in the insurance giant, the goal was to facilitate an orderly reorganization rather than a chaotic bankruptcy breakup of the varied assets. Among those assets are the leases at six US ports (Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, Tampa and New Orleans) and stevedoring at 16 locations. Where those assets go, trouble seems to follow. ...

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