Industry Articles

Inbound Logistics
3PL Capability is Key to Logistics Cost Reduction
Investing in outside services is more cost effective than pouring money into areas that are not core competencies. Capable third-party logistics (3PL) providers can help you manage rising logistics costs because they already have highly developed processes and critical infrastructures in place.

Material Handling & Logistics
How Hybrid Sourcing Can Lower Costs
This new approach to sourcing emphasizes visibility and control while reducing total landed costs.

Inbound Logistics
Protect Your Supply Chain From Merger Mania
Research conducted in recent years has shown that lean, mid-size 3PLs have an edge over mega-3PLs when it comes to customer relations. A lean 3PL like Comprehensive Logistics Inc. (CLI) allows companies to maintain control over logistics processes while still receiving the benefits of outsourcing.
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Inbound Logistics
Sorting Through Materials Handling Decisions — Innovation in Action: Cruze Control
CLI’s optimized materials handling operations and tight inbound control keep Chevy Cruze production lines moving, despite GM’s stringent quality standards that demand error tolerances smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

Kansas City Business Journal
Steering for success: Comprehensive Logistics uses GM contract to drive growth
With a large contract with the General Motors Assembly Plant in Fairfax serving as a strong beachhead, Comprehensive Logistics Inc. now wants to expand its service offerings to other manufacturers in the Kansas City area.
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The Business Journal
Comprehensive Logistics Gets Cruze Contract
About an hour after the first Chevrolet Cruzes for sale rolled off the production line in Lordstown, Comprehensive Logistics Inc. announced it has been selected by General Motors Co. to manage global inbound logistics and value-added subassembly processes for the vehicle.

Journal of Commerce
Comprehensive Logistics Wins GM Contract
General Motors selected Comprehensive Logistics to manage global inbound logistics and value-added subassembly processes for its newest compact car, the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze.

The Vindicator
Delivery Is Name of Game for Area Company
A local logistical services provider has been selected by General Motors to manage logistics and sub-assembly processes for the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze, adding more than 500 jobs to the area.

Supply Chain Digital
Comprehensive Logistics Sponsors Global Conference
The provider of efficient, engineered logistics services for complex supply chains is sponsoring the Conference, which will be held in Dearborn, Michigan, on 4-6 October this year.

Supply Chain Digital
Company Report - Comprehensive Logistics Inc: Reaching Customers in Real Time
Based in Youngstown, OH, Comprehensive Logistics offers the latest tools and fine-tuned processes to ensure a smooth supply chain operation.
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The Vindicator
Supplier in Demand: Comprehensive Logistics Builds Future with GM
An award-winning local company that does the bulk of its work with General Motors Corp. expects to continue growing despite the automaker’s bankruptcy.
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Armstrong & Associates Inc. 
Comprehensive Logistics – Great Skills, Tough Year
Comprehensive Logistics Inc. (CLI) is a top-notch automotive logistics third-party logistics provider (3PL). It is one of the four lead logistics providers (LLPs) for General Motors and a major provider for Ford and other original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It just launched a new operation at Ford’s Avon Lake, OH assembly plant.
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The Vindicator
Local Trucking Companies on Road to Continuing Growth, Success
Falcon Transport has been putting the pedal to the metal, and people have noticed. The Meridian Road company has grown so fast that a trade publication just ranked it as the 97th-largest trucking company in the nation. Falcon and its sister company, Comprehensive Logistics, posted revenues of $205.5 million last year, a 15 percent increase.
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The Vindicator
100 Years of Hauling: Four Local Companies with a National Reach Share a Common History
In 1906, J.V. McNicholas pulled his horse drawn wagon up to the railroad tracks along the banks of the Mahoning River for the first time. He must have wondered what the future would bring.
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