Supply chain consultant forms logistics project and stocks it with big names

US supply chain consultant Jim Tompkins has unveiled plans to launch a fourth-party logistics provider in a project that will see it “managing a group of prominent companies that will pool their services in an unconventional approach to capturing a share of the fast-growing e-commerce fulfilment market”, initially aiming its services at apparel and footwear e-tailers. The MonarchFX Alliance will see Tompkins bring together US 3PLs Kenco, NFI and an unnamed third, along with technology provider JDA and an undisclosed ...