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COVER STORY Scarbrough Logistics Warehouse and Transportation Services Scarbrough Logistics’ positioning in the Midwest region of the United States offers Scarbrough International and our customers the ability to move shipments quickly, seamlessly and effortlessly from anyone of our three CFS warehouses to most points in the Midwestern United States with just one call. Our strengths lie in the following three factors; our infrastructure, our geographic locations and our employees. Scarbrough Logistics management team has continued to upgrade our fleet of long haul and local trucks and our office technology to ensure that when a shipment is moving within our system that the chance of a delay arising due to imprecise communication or a breakdown of equipment is virtually eliminated. Scarbrough Logistics operates a fleet of late model over the road trucks for our line haul operations and a larger fleet of local delivery trucks in the Kansas City, St Louis and Chicago metro regions. Our communications are fully integrated to take advantage of the latest evolutions in computer technology allowing our customer service representatives to get information to you quickly so you can be assured your shipment will deliver on time. The geographic locations of our three, fully functional customs bonded CFS warehouse terminals allows for flexibility in moving and staging your freight for delivery. Whether your shipment starts out near Kansas City, St Louis or the Chicago metro region our facilities are all connected by daily line hauls to get your shipments from one major metro area in the Midwest to another overnight. We can then utilize our fleet of local trucks to make the final delivery as quickly as possible. As with any successful organization our ability to carry out our operations daily is a direct result of the caliber of people we have in key positions throughout our company. In Scarbrough Logistics we have a crew of professional drivers, an experienced domestic brokerage team in place to move your shipments outside of our system when needed, a dispatch department staff who are in constant contact with his drivers, warehouse managers who are dedicated to handle freight the Scarbrough way and warehouse employees who are concerned with every skid and carton that leaves our facility. Our professionalism and local expertise that is contained in the personnel we have hired allows us to have the knowledge, abilities and contacts to handle any situation that may arise. So if you need to move something down the street or down the highway Scarbrough Logistics has the tools, the knowledge and the ability to get it done. At Scarbrough we are, as founder Roger Scarbrough states, “Big enough to meet your needs, small enough to care”. -- Joe Creedon, CFS Terminal Manager |
Multi-Country Consolidation Programs The Consolidation Programs offered by Scarbrough International brings reliability, security and speed to the forefront of globalized supply chains. The essence of commanding any international supply chain from origin port to door destinations is the accessibility and visibility of the shipment. with Scarbrough's depth in partnerships we are able to reduce the constraints inherent in the formidable LCL vacuum that usually allows freight to end up in whoknowswhereville. Material handling is a major consideration for the logistics industries. CELDi (Center of Engineering, Logistics and Distribution) is an organization that provides some of the best academics in the form of consultants that are hired by companies such as Ford Motor Company, John Deere, Coca Cola, Kraft Foods and Lockheed Martin Corp. to resolve constraints such as those involving shipment logistics. These large companies recognize the value in reducing the number of constraints or hands that effect their supply chain. Scarbrough's solution to the LCL debacle... FOR MORE... -- Scott Woods, Marketing Department |
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BUSINESS NEWS
Attention: Additional charges may be accruing on your import containers !!!! It is important to remember that there are basically two types of releases, which must happen in order for your cargo to be released for delivery to you: U.S. Customs & other government agency releases (USDA, FDA, EPA, etc.) and the steamship line or carrier release. If for any reason one of these releases is delayed, it will mean added costs. There are several different areas which are critical to eliminating any additional expenses... -- Debbie Roberts, Dean of Scarbrough University |
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BUSINESS MONITOR Manufacturing Expands In April, Beating Expectations And A Sluggish Economy For April, the manufacturing sector expanded to its highest level in nearly a year and beat analyst forecasts of only a slight increase from March. The Institute for Supply Chain Management’s (ISM) April Report on Business PMI registered 54.7, the highest mark since July 2006. The index measured 50.9 in March and was predicted to inch to 51 for April. “Manufacturing activity increased in April as the PMI reflects accelerating growth for the month... -- Amy Radishofski, Staff Reporter Manufacturing.net |
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SCARBROUGH NEWS The Pandemic Flu and Business Continuity You’ve probably heard about the pandemic influenza, which is also known as the pandemic flu. Some of the things you’ve heard may even frighten you. You may be ignoring the whole thing, or you might not know what to think. Because flu pandemics are cyclical and we have not experienced one in quite some time experts around the world think that another flu pandemic will soon strike causing millions to get sick or worse. This could possibly affect you, your family and even the company you work for... -- Jared Smith, Import Customer Service Representative |
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William Maxwell McMillen begins his run for the Whitehouse Please welcome a new addition to the Scarbrough Family. Ben McMillen, a Kansas City Sales Executive, and his wife Natalie had a baby boy this month. Ben insists that William Maxwell McMillen will begin his campaign for the Presidency as soon as he mutters his first words, which, if Ben has any influence, will be "Goo Goo Tax Cuts." -- Scott Woods, Marketing Department |
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