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Maintaining a productive relationship in the supply chain
By Ken Ackerman
 Two of the dirtiest words in supply chain management are commoditization and disintermediation. In fact, they really refer to the same thing — the ability of the buyer of logistics services to destroy the vendor's effort to create a unique value proposition. In wholesale distribution, disintermediation is the buyer's tactic of cutting out the middleman and buying directly from the manufacturer. The same challenge exists for logistics service providers and their customers. When the buyer considers such services to be a commodity, the decision will be based solely on price.
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Present for the revolution: Interview with Gail Rutkowski
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Gail Rutkowski got her start in transportation and logistics just on the cusp of major shifts in the way carriers and shippers worked together, a shift largely brought on by deregulation in the 1980s. Today, 30 years later, she serves as executive director of the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council, one of the organizations that worked long and hard to effect legislative and regulatory change.
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