This IDC Manufacturing Insights report uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the worldwide enterprise labeling application market. ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com

Global transportation and logistics services provider UPS announced this week that it has officially opened up its second-largest United States-based, and fourth largest global network package operating facility. ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com

With a 0.9-cent increase, the average price per gallon is $3.394, coming off of a 7.2-cent increase last week. ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com

The good economic times may not last forever. ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com

POLA reported that total volume for the month, at 801,264 TEU (twenty-foot equivalents) saw a 4.9% annual gain, marking the best September volume output for in its 111 years of operation. POLB handled 701,204 TEU in September, which was essentially flat on an annual basis, with a 0.1% decline. ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com

United States retail sales for the month of September posted slight sequential gains, the annual gains coming in higher, according to data issued today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com

In many business circles, the phrase, “you get what you paid for,” can often speak volumes. Based on research recently published by global express delivery and logistics services provider DHL, that sentiment carries a lot of weight. ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com

With the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate now having been in effect for the better part of a year, there have since been various impacts from the mandate on shippers supply chain and logistics strategies, as well as having an effect on emerging time constraints on shipping lanes rather than a loss of truck drivers. ztsapos@peerlessmedia.com