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The idea for Menlo Logistics was developed in the late 1980s. At that time, CF Inc.’s director of marketing, John Williford, presented the idea for the company's creation — an organization that offered warehouse, inventory, and transportation management as well as full integration of supply chain links through customized systems and software — to upper management.
Quiet Logistics was co-founded in 2009 by Bruce Welty and Michael Johnson. [3] Both have backgrounds in supply chain management, having co-founded, in 1987, warehouse management system (WMS) vendor Allpoints Systems, in Norwood, Massachusetts, and, in 2003, Scenic Technologies Corp. [4] Quiet was the first third-party logistics company to use Kiva Systems' warehouse robotics system. [5]
Second-party logistics arose in the course of the globalization and the uprising trend of lean management when the companies began to outsource their logistics activities to focus on their own core competencies. Examples are courier, express and parcel services; ocean carriers, freight forwarders and transshipment providers.
The company serves multiple industries and is a leader in non-asset-based transportation, warehousing and distribution, and value-added services. It also works with reverse logistics processes, including returns, recommerce and recycling. The company processes 358 million returns annually and more than 500K direct-to-consumer shipments daily.
Li & Fung Limited is a Hong Kong–based supply chain management company. Established in 1906, the company became publicly traded in 1973 and has since played a significant role in manufacturing apparel, toys, and various consumer goods for major North American and European retailers.
Exel was a supply chain and logistics company operating in North America and Europe, which became a subsidiary of the German firm Deutsche Post in 2005. It reported annual revenues of about $4.2 billion in February 2012.
CJ Logistics Corporation (Korean: 씨제이대한통운 주식회사; Hanja: CJ大韓通運 株式會社; RR: CJ Daehan Tongun Jusik Hoesa) is a logistics company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It is the oldest and largest parcel delivery firm in South Korea.
CEVA Logistics is a global logistics and supply chain company that operates both freight management and contract logistics.It was purchased by the CMA CGM group in 2019. Since this purchase, CMA CGM has acquired other logistics and transportation companies to merge with and develop CEVA Logistics, such as Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services and GEFCO.