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Monday, March 29, 2021

What Does The Ever Given Episode Teach Us?

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 Many have focused on the Ever Given episode as a symbol for the dangers of international shipping.  Some have discussed it in terms of &qu...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Why The Chief Supply Chain Officer Needs to Understand Customer Experience in Detail

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  Thesis :  The Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) needs to be very close to the Chief Customer Officer or whoever in the enterprise is respo...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

There is No "Fast Following" in Today's Technology

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There have been a lot of supply chain learnings as a result of the COVID-19 environment and there is nothing more important than the lesson ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

The Final 3 Feet Have Become The Most Important in The Supply Chain

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We have talked about "the final 3 feet" before which is defined as the leg of the supply chain where product is brought from the b...
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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Have Clicks and Bricks Won The Game over Pure E-Commerce

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First, I will give you my hypothesis answer which is " Yes " it has.  Of course, I have been wrong before and will be wrong again ...
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, March 22, 2020

Time for a Supply Chain Reserve Corps

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As I am sure every supply chain professional and logistician is doing now, I am spending quite a bit of time thinking about the overall supp...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Extreme Ownership in Supply Chain Management

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I think it is well known that the supply chain area becomes somewhat of a hub for the corporation.  Just about every activity either flows i...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

What do FOMO and Linkedin Have to Do with Supply Chain Management

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Has anyone noticed recently that your linkedin feed is just full of a bunch of technology looking for a reason to exist and all sorts of con...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Another Tough Report from A Carrier - Schneider Has Tough Q32019

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The freight recession is real and the carriers are feeling the pain.  We know the smaller carriers are truly suffering however today Schneid...
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 ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

What Have The Tariffs Taught us About Supply Chain?

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This is not a political or even an economic posting relative to the tariffs and the current "tariff war".  Rather, I have been doi...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

How Can The Market Be at An All Time High and There Be A Freight Recession - Part II

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In my previous post I outlined why I believe freight is slowing.  Certain signals in the marketplace are telling us employment adds are decr...
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How Can The Market be at All time High and There Be a "Freight Recession"? - PART I

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The question posed in the title can be a perplexing problem and I am sure is of interest to both those who make a living running trucking co...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

J.B. Hunt as NVOCC

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I missed this one but I do think it is interesting the intermodal arm of J.B. Hunt is now a licensed NVOCC.  The article from the Journal of...
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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, February 24, 2019

Kraft, ZBB and the Art of Designing Supply Chains

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A lot has been written this weekend about what is happening at Kraft Heinz ( KHC ) and why they suddenly had to write down a huge portion of...
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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...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Capitalism without Capital and Why Amazon Was Able to Get To Scale

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I am currently reading a fantastic book titled Capitalism without Capital:  The Rise of The Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel and Stian ...