[ad_1] October 17, 2016 Tags: Logistics I.T., Trucking, Supply Chain Management, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Technology , Supply Chain Twitter Face-off: When given four buzz-worthy innovations to choose from, IL Twitter followers picked self-driving vehicles as the tech with the most supply chain bang. Supply chain advancement is a methodology […]
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Leading by Example and Empowerment
[ad_1] October 17, 2016 Tags: Logistics I.T., Trucking, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Partnership, Logistics, Technology When a corporate merger sent Marc Althen to Penske Truck Leasing in 1988, his first assignment there put him in charge of environmental services—an apt role for a chemical engineer who started his career at […]
Trends—October 2016 – Inbound Logistics
[ad_1] October 17, 2016 | By Jason McDowell Tags: Trucking, Retail, Site Selection, Distribution, E-commerce, Transportation, Retail Logistics, Real Estate Response to ELD Mandate: Yours, Mine, and Hours The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) deadline for truckers to install Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) is nearly one year away, on […]
Accidents Happen: Is Your Transportation Partner Prepared?
[ad_1] October 17, 2016 | By Chris Cotter Tags: Trucking, Partnership, Risk Management, Transportation When a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit is brought against a commercial transportation company after a motor vehicle accident, creative lawyers are increasingly including negligence claims. Such claims focus attention on how the transportation company […]
Right on Target – Inbound Logistics
[ad_1] November 14, 2016 Tags: 3PL, Trucking, Education & Careers, Transportation, Logistics, Third-Party Logistics, Supply Chain One day, while working as a salesman for Overnite Transportation (now UPS Freight), Mike Wagner offered a customer a great set of rates. But the shipper said he didn’t need Wagner; the rates he […]
Trends—December 2016 – Inbound Logistics
[ad_1] December 29, 2016 | By Jason McDowell Tags: Trucking, Security, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Happy New Year! Time for Your Annual Supply Chain Health Check Throughout the course of 2016, your supply chain was plugging away, receiving and handling new product lines, efficiently fulfilling e-commerce orders during slow times […]
How Driverless Trucks Will Change Supply Chain Strategy
[ad_1] December 29, 2016 | By Jeff Potts Tags: Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Supply Chain In the popular 1985 movie “Back to the Future”, it was predicted that by the year 2015, we would have the ability to fly our cars in the friendly skies. While that version of […]
Leveraging Your Routing Guide – Inbound Logistics
[ad_1] January 17, 2017 Tags: 3PL, Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Third-Party Logistics, Supply Chain A routing guide plays an important role in setting the strategy for carrier selection. It is essentially a shipper’s guide to choosing a carrier to move a particular shipment. While there are many forms of […]
Trends—January 2017 – Inbound Logistics
[ad_1] January 17, 2017 | By Jason McDowell Tags: Ocean, Trucking, Legislation, Public Policy, and Regulations, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Amazon continues to rattle nerves in the transportation sector. In 2015, the company launched a fleet of branded trucks to help shuttle cargo between facilities. In 2016, it leased 40 […]
Cloud Collaboration Increases Supply Chain Efficiency
[ad_1] January 17, 2017 | By Dan Clark Tags: Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Supply Chain Defined as the art of working together to produce or create something, collaboration has become a focal point for organizations that want to work smarter, better, and more efficiently in today’s competitive business world. […]
The Slow, Steady Decline Of the Owner-Operator Model
[ad_1] January 17, 2017 | By Anthony Berritto Tags: Trucking, Legislation, Public Policy, and Regulations, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Today, we face the slow extinction of independent owner-operators. These self-reliant business owners are dealing with a myriad of regulations that will soon make the owner-operator model impractical, and its survival […]
Baseball Logistics: Hitting a Home Run Every Trip
[ad_1] January 17, 2017 | By Gary Wollenhaupt Tags: Trucking, Expedited Shipping, Specialized Logistics, Transportation Off the diamond, truckers and clubhouse staff work tirelessly to execute the logistics of Spring Training. Here’s how they achieve this Haul of Fame accomplishment. Once the historic Game 7 of the 2016 World Series […]