alliances
Nike Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with
LLamasoft Inc. to co-develop supply chain solutions that
offer both logistics and environmental benefits. … Food-service distributor Upper Lakes
Foods Inc. has installed Jennifer
FoodSelect from Lucas Systems in its
Cloquet and Northfield, Minn., DCs.
In addition, Remington Arms has
extended its use of Lucas’s Jennifer
VoicePlus. … The U.S. Shippers
Association (USSA) has rolled out
the GT Nexus cloud supply chain platform to centralize and
automate global logistics management for member companies. … A number of companies have recently implemented
a hosted version of Cargo Wise’s ediEnterprise solution. They
include Mexican freight forwarder Evolucion Logistics,
international logistics company Lynden Inc., and CMA CGM
Logistics, a division of steamship carrier CMA CGM. …
Advantage Consumer Healthcare has selected third-party
logistics service provider Kenco to handle its U.S. distribu-
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tion and warehousing. … Airclic will be integrating ALK
Technologies’ truck-specific GPS navigation solution, CoPilot
Truck, into its cloud-based mobile software products for
supply chain and logistics operations. … New Course LLC, a
consulting and integration services company, has joined the
SAP PartnerEdge program as an SAP services partner. …
Yard management and dock scheduling specialist C3
Solutions Inc. has formed a business partnership with WCS,
a provider of warehouse management and mobile solu-
tions. … Hannibal Industries will become a North American
master distributor for Metalsistem, a modular storage and
display solutions manufacturer. … Project Professionals
Group has appointed Stella Group as its new project sup-
port member for Finland, the Baltics, and Russia. … Bennett
International Logistics LLC, a third-party logistics service
provider, has been awarded a Schedule 48 contract by the
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the procure-
ment arm of the federal government. GSA Schedule 48 pro-
vides federal, state, and local government entities with
transportation, delivery, and relocation solutions.
