[ad_1] November 15, 2021 | By Jaclyn Ix Tags: Retail, Materials Handling, Demand Planning Pre-Orders Build Up Home Improvement Inventory Many manufacturers have discontinued their less-popular products or increased prices across product categories as ships wait off the California coast, truck drivers face long wait times, and rail yards remain […]
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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 […]
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 […]
How would you summarize the supply chain in 2021 in five words?
[ad_1] December 07, 2021 | By Katrina Arabe Tags: Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Logistics A never-ending game of whack-a-mole. —Brian Higgins Principal, Supply Chain & Operations Leader KPMG CHAOS: Challenging Hectic Absurd Obscure Somber —Jeff Pepperworth President & CEO iGPS Logistics Scale matters for everything shortages. Home Depot, […]
Today’s Competitive Supply Chain: Digital, Smaller, More Resilient
[ad_1] March 27, 2017 | By Sean Riley Tags: 3PL, Ocean, Trucking, Cloud Computing, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Third-Party Logistics, Supply Chain Sean Riley is Global Industry Director, Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Transportation, Software AG, 630-434-0720 Historically, the supply chain and manufacturing industry has been relatively slow to embrace […]
Alaska: Conquering The Last Frontier
[ad_1] April 19, 2017 Tags: Air Cargo, Ocean, Trucking, Economic Development, Site Selection, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Alaska has much to offer. It encompasses nearly 600,000 square miles, is home to one of the largest oil fields in North America, and boasts breathtaking scenery. It also presents logistics challenges and […]
Do you think self-driving trucks will affect the supply chain in the next two years? How so?
[ad_1] June 20, 2017 Tags: Trucking, Logistics, Technology , Supply Chain No. I do not believe this is a viable option in the United States. Current research is specific for the European theater on confined and controlled highway systems. The United States will require significant highway infrastructure investment to facilitate […]
Autonomous Vehicle Revolution Is Upon Us
[ad_1] July 21, 2017 | By Robert Hooper Tags: Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Self-driving or autonomous vehicles are progressing quickly past the testing phase. This technology is a world-changing innovation—a revolution well underway—that may surpass the discovery of electricity and the invention of the automobile. What sets this revolution […]
Crawlers Conquer the Last Mile Before Takeoff
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The New Era of Smart City Logistics – MHI
[ad_1] November 18, 2017 | By George Prest Tags: Trucking, Last Mile Delivery, Logistics, Supply Chain Let’s talk about your company’s futureproof strategy to meet the challenges and opportunities of Smart City Logistics head-on. Oh, wait. You don’t have one yet? You’re not alone. According to the fourth edition of […]