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Showing posts with label procurement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label procurement. Show all posts
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Supplier Compliance and Social Responsibility - Look Deep Into Your Supply Chain

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The Guardian has run a great piece in their paper titled " Vauxhall and BMW among Car Firms Linked to Child Labour Over Glittery Mica P...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Is Your 3PL Working for You The Shipper or For The Carrier

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Anyone who reads my blog regularly knows I am not a fan of this carrier creation called "be a shipper of choice".  To simplify my ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Don't Be Fooled Again..

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For those who read my last post and are not sure it is true, I refer you back to the post from November 7th, 2013 titled:  " The Fear T...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Another Summer and More Fear from FTR

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It is like clockwork.  I can set my watch by the articles that will be printed by the logistics' press such as FTR.  Here is the story o...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Why Benchmarking In Its Current State for Transportation is Dangerous

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I hear a lot about benchmarking in my travels and it makes me think about this idea, why it is used and what it really is.  What also fascin...
Friday, March 8, 2013

February Cass Freight Index Supports 10xLE® Predictions

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The February Cass Freight Index has been released and it continues to support and is right in line with what we have been predicting here at...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Inventory to Sales Ratio - Will March Change the Curve?

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One of my favorite measurements of business activity which actually relates to transportation volume is the Inventory to Sales Ratio.  As I ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Why I am Not Concerned About The "Driver Shortage"

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The myth that has existed in trucking for over 15 years is some year we will get into such an acute driver shortage that freight will be at ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Should Cost Modeling Comes to Logistics

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I wrote back in January, embedded in another article about why people should do "should cost" modeling prior to negotiating rates ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

2012 Was A Good Year for Shippers Who Used Analysis Over Emotion

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Despite all the noise about how CSA, regulations and a surging economy would create a massive deficit in capacity, what we saw in 2012 was a...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Buyer Beware... of Anchoring!

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Sitting tonight watching the news and the topic was the "after Christmas sales".  The story, of course, made me think of transport...

Holiday Sales Disappoint - Leading to Inventory Issues?

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First, Merry Christmas and my wishes for a very happy holiday season.  Regardless of what you celebrate at this time of the year the message...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

September CASS Freight Index - Year over Year Decline

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I will take a day to digest these numbers however the CASS Index is out for September and the results are mixed.  Increase month over month ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Bid More Frequently, Not Less

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I am not sure how I totally missed this great article in DC Velocity entitled " Go Short " however I am glad I ran into it now.  I...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Turning Over Procurement of Carriers to a 3PL?

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I have met many companies recently who not only have outsourced their operations to a 3PL but they have also turned over the procurement and...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Thoughts on Economic Distortion

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In transportation I have heard shippers say they do not want to negotiate too "hard" with carriers because they want to treat them...