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Showing posts with label logistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logistics. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2020

The Final Three Feet is Really Really Important (As We Are Re-Learning)

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Back in April 2, 2013 I wrote a blog post entitled, " Is the 'Final Three Feet' The Most Important Logistics Leg" and it ...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Mike Welch - A Legend Passes On

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It took me a few days to even think about a world without Mike Welch.  Mike was truly a special man.  He was special not in a flashy way ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Is "Freight-Tech" the future or Has Uber and Lyft Killed the Dream?

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While I personally was unable to attend the annual Freightwaves Transparency19 conference this year I did watch a lot of the clips and I wa...
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Sunday, March 3, 2019

Provide Ritz-Carlton Service to Your Customers - It is Mostly Free

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I had such a great experience this weekend I had to, as always, relate it back to customer value chain fulfillment.  We decided to spend the...
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

The End of Sears Should Be Mourned by The Supply Chain Community

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If I described to you a retail entity which did the following what would you say? Took orders nationwide over multiple channels (whatever...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Will Disruption in The Inefficient Transportation Market Come From Within

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Many of you who have read my blog over the last many years know I am a bit critical of our industry.  Innovation has been very slow in comin...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

What is The True State of The Supply Chain Industry?

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As we look at the profession of managing supply chains we tend to spend a lot of time working on specific areas such as S&OP, Six Sigma,...
Sunday, August 14, 2016

Why Logistics' Leaders Need to Recast "Cost Control"

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The best presentation I have seen in a long time was given last year at the CSCMP Annual Conference and it was given by Amazon.  The topic w...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

How Lack of Same Day Delivery Saved Me

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This is a logistics story in reverse.  Rather than discuss the benefits of same day delivery I am going to review with you how lack of same ...
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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Total Quality Logistics Opening in Daytona Florida

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This is good news for Florida. TQL to open an office in Daytona and bringing over 100 jobs.  If you look at the map, the area from Jacksonv...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

UPS Buys Coyote Logistics - No Surprise to Readers of 10x Logistics

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This week, after a few weeks of rumors, we learned that UPS Paid $1.8bl for Coyote Logistics.  This was no surprise to any reader of this b...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Where is The Elon Musk of the Logistics World?

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I am currently reading the book   Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future I highly encourage everyone to read it.  H...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Can We Finally Get on With Life? HOS is Upheld

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Today it was reported that virtually all of the provisions in the hours of service (HOS) rule-making were upheld in court (again) .  We sho...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Retailers Compete on Supply Chain - Part Deux

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I have talked for years in speeches and in advising companies that the supply chain will become the competitive advantage for those trying t...
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

The Jobs Report Relative to Logistics: Families Enjoy Life More With Less?

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The major economic news yesterday which, for a short period of time shattered the markets, was the jobs report.  Some key statistics from th...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Is The "Final 3 Feet" The Most Important Logistics Leg?

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I have talked a lot about " Final Mile " logistics especially since so many are trying to compete in this area.  From next day del...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

The Battle for Retail Sales is Really The Battle of Supply Chains

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I continue to believe the battle for retail sales is really all about the underlying supply chains rather than the actual store.  The "...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Crowd Sourcing Logistics Comes to Wal-Mart

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We have heard of crowd sourcing when it comes to many areas and specifically, mostly, in IT work.  Essentially you allow the "crowd&quo...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

"Home Delivery" Lockers at Wal-Mart

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In another twist to the race to home delivery and the attempt to de-throne Amazon , Wal-Mart is now testing lockers in their stores.  Alon...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Guest on Talking Logistics - Fun and Interesting Conversation

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I was thrilled to be a guest on Talking Logistics last week with Adrian Gonzalez.  My commentary is below and hope you enjoy!