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Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Boom Box Replaced By The iPod

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The anchoring continues by many transportation executives where they publish all sorts of comments that say "if" this happens and...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Vacation Got the Best of Me - Maersk Looks into A Dim Future for Containers

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Ok, just for my regular readers, I am back.  Took a bit of a vacation and toured around Europe for a while.  Sorry for the lack of posts and...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Reshoring - New Balance - Who Kept Significant MFG in US - Has Thoughts

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I just listened to a fascinating Podcast from Bloomberg with President and CEO of New Balance Shoes, Robert DeMartini.   He maintains a sign...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Sustainability is Good Business - Global Companies Sign on To A Climate Declaration

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Be careful if you think demanding action for climate change is just the purview of the crazies; many Fortune 100 companies are taking this v...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

The Incredible Shrinking Freight

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PCs replace mini and mainframes,  Laptops replace desktops, tablets replace laptops, smartphones replace tablets...  and so the saga goes.  ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Is The Failure of Ron Johnson at J.C. Penny a Sign Anchoring Wins?

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I posted an article about Anchoring a while ago .  For a refresher, anchoring is all about the seller trying to establish a starting price f...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Cass March Freight Index - Surge in Freight; Not So Much Rates

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The March Cass Freight Index is out and while freight showed a marked increase in march ( 5.8% Feb to Mar and 4.2% YoY) the expenditure incr...
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

Does Re-Shoring Mean a Return to Industrialized America?

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I really like the article Kevin O'Marah wrote over at SCM World entitled: Re-shoring is a Red Herring .  He rightfully points out that w...

"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!

Execution IS A Strategy

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At Logistics Viewpoints Adrian Gonzalez writes a post titled: " Forget Innovation, Just Execute Better " and I found this to be ex...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The Sick State of Ocean Freight

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I do not spend a lot of time on ocean freight and I probably should spend more.  Suffice it to say I know it is in a dramatic over capacity ...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Total Business Inventory to Sales Ratios

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Somehow last week got away from me, perhaps too much sun in Florida the week prior, so I did not post this on Thursday as I would have liked...
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Supply Chain and Sustainability

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Greenbiz and Supply Chain Insights conduct a survey on the different thoughts of supply chain organizations and sustainability organization...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

The Rush to Brokerage

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Much like the early '80s there appears to be a rush to brokerage going on in the transportation industry. While I still feel eventually ...