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Group Offers Benchmarking Benefits Through Tiered, Online Program

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The TCA Profitability Program, run using the inGauge online platform, is an outgrowth of the organization’s Best Practice Groups, which were established in 2002 to connect eight to 14 peer companies and allow them to share their successes and challenges to help each other improve.

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Labor Tensions Cause Port Headaches for Retail, Manufacturing Industries

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The projected cost, per day, of a 10-day port shutdown on the West Coast, according to an estimate supplied by global management consulting firm Kurt Salmon on behalf of the National Retail Federation and the National Association of Manufacturers. In 2002, after a 10-day work stoppage at the ports, President George W.