Last-Mile Lifts XPO Logistics to a New Level

The boom in e-commerce has focused a lot of attention on logistics, both for businesses managing their supply chains and for retailers delivering products to their end customers. XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) knows how many key elements there are to getting logistics right, and often, the aspects that might seem to be the most trivial turn out to be crucial to earn success in the shipping business.

Coming into Wednesday's second-quarter financial report, XPO investors were content to see flat revenue, but they wanted much stronger earnings from the logistics specialist. XPO managed to meet those expectations, and the company cited success in a couple of often-neglected areas of supply chain logistics for its past and future success. Let's take a closer look at XPO Logistics and what its latest results say about the industry and XPO's place in it.

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