What is compliance in Facility Management? Compliance is “to be in accordance” with a certain plan, regulation, legislation, or standard. Therefore, compliance in Facility Management implies complying with a certain task plan, safety regulations, the legislation of the country, or ISO standards. But this definition is very generic!
Read more →Office hoteling is a reservation-based style of office administration where employees book their use of workspaces (including desks, cubicles, equipment, and conference rooms) for a specified time that meets their working needs – before they arrive. During the pandemic, when almost every employee worked from home and
Read more →Earlier this week, Ascend LLC, an Atlanta-based dry van, full truckload carrier, said this week it has acquired Saux City, Wisc. -based Fuchs Trucking LLC. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This marks the fourth acquisition has made this year. Established in 1955, Fuchs Trucking
Read more →Port Tracker report points to ongoing slowing of imports, with retailers’ inventories at high levels
By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor · November 9, 2022 The new edition of the Port Tracker report, which was released today by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and maritime consultancy Hackett Associates, picked up where its previous edition left off, with retail container port volumes expected
Read more →It was a great opportunity for SatNav Technologies, a Hyderabad-based IT Product company, to partner and showcase its award-winning flagship Facilities & Workplace Management Software, QuickFMS, at the 8th National Facilities Managers (MF) Summit 2022 organized by Telangana Facility Management Council (TFMC). QuickFMS, a leader in Facilities,
Read more →It’s been quite a year for trade compliance and logistics teams. As a baseball fan, the closest I can come to describing this past year is with a reference to Abbott & Costello’s decades old “Who’s on first” routine—a comedy sketch that they first introduced on the
Read more →It is no secret that digital freight matching (DFM) technology continues to increase its profile in terms of importance and relevance in the trucking market. While the economy remains a whirlwind of mixed signals and future indicators, coupled with relatively solid demand for trucking services, the need—and ability—for
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For an industry that’s nearly entirely deregulated on the economic side, trucking faces any number of forces emanating not only from the regulators in Washington, D.C., but also from safety, economic and environmentalists in state capitals around the country. By far, the biggest regulatory story in trucking
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Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on American Eagle Outfitters’ (AEO Inc.) new approach to retail and e-tail fulfillment. Part 1 looked at AEO’s facilities; in Part 2 we look at its shared network. Many of us think of e-fulfillment as an inside
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The main findings of our annual “Warehouse Operations & Trends Survey” have been consistent the last few years: rising budgets for warehouse and distribution center (DC) automation, coupled with deep concern about being able to find and retain warehouse staff. This year’s pool of respondents—readers involved with
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