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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Fundamental Supply Chain Shifts Kill The Idea of a "Surge"

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I have talked a lot about the inventory to sales ratio and how it is such a great predictor of what will happen in the transportation indust...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The New Transportation Technology Ecosystem is Shaping

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Developing the future is messy.  It always appears it cannot be done and individual technologies, when looked at in isolation, look like the...
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Will The On Demand Economy Work in For Hire Freight?

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I recently read a very well written article in Trucks.com titled:   Will The Sharing Economy Disrupt Trucking, Transportation and logistics ...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

1.4 Million Supply Chain Workers needed - Strategy: Keep the Ones You Have

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Get ready!  The "War on Talent" is here and it is here to stay.  Fortune published an article titled " Wanted: 1.4 million ne...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

What Have We Done to The World?

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Recently I posted about socially conscious and responsible sourcing.  Michael Jackson says it much better than I:

Inbound Logistics Discusses Cost

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As if on queue, after I wrote my article about recasting your discussion from "cost" control to "revenue" generation, In...
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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Monday, August 1, 2016

Cass Indices for June Report Real Issues with Trucking and Intermodal

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The Cass Indices for June r eported what observers knew was to be the case:  Once again the trucking "recovery" has stalled and ca...
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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...

Help Adrian Gonzalez Raise $10K to Fight Type 1 Diabetes!

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Anyone who has been in this industry for more than a day probably knows Adrian, has heard of Adrian or has watched his great videos on Talki...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Macroeconomic Monday® Special Edition - Watch the Debt

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I have read two major books recently on the economy - one old and one new. Both appear to be seminal books on what drives economic booms, bu...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Revisit "Favored Shipper" During Downturn in Rates

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I have advocated over and over that the idea of getting better rates because you are a "favored" or "preferred" shipper ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Predictions Coming True - Inventory Adjustment Under Way and Rates are Down

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A special edition of Marcoeconomic Monday today!  The results are in and they are really showing a slowing economy (GDP adjustments have bee...

Schneider Enters The Final Mile Battle - A Very Late Arrival

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An interesting development over the last few weeks which I needed to digest was the entrance of Schneider National into the Final Mile foray...
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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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Inventories Continue to Grow

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For those who read this blog regularly, you know a key metric I track regularly is the Inventory to Sales ratio.  The reasons I do this are ...
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Pricing Declines in Both Truckload and Intermodal

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The promise of "pay me now so you don't have to pay me later" continues to be a mirage.  With the release of the March CASS...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Another Year of Dashed Hopes for Trucking

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Well, another year starts off with the "this is the year for trucking" story and it is starting to look like it is another year wh...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Supply Chain Talent As Competitive Advantage - Traction

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I recently published a posting about the Ascendency of Supply Chain and the proof point I used was Amazon suing Target over "poaching&...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Leadership in Distribution Centers - Employer of Choice

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It is a fierce battle out there for great talent in warehousing.  I mean for all talent - hourly and salary. This segment has really become ...