Our founding team of supply chain veterans and ML experts has created one of the most sophisticated suites of optimization tools in the supply chain world. Let us show you.
by Tom Moore on Dec 13, 2021 7:00:00 PM
As companies push out their payables – some as far as 180 days – they are offering vendors a way to get their money earlier called supply-chain financing. How it works: The vendor sends a bill The customer approves it A bank then offers terms ...
by Tom Moore on Dec 6, 2021 7:00:00 PM
On a day when we remember Pearl Harbor as a “day of infamy,” here are 2 examples of things that Federal and State Governments are doing that should become infamous: In the “we love unions” department, the dubious requirement for Amazon to re-vote in ...
by Tom Moore on Nov 29, 2021 7:00:00 PM
Automation is seen as a great way to eliminate tasks in the warehouse that require unskilled labor. Unfortunately, automation requires skilled labor to set up and maintain. One company is struggling to get automation running and is finding the ...
by Tom Moore on Nov 22, 2021 7:00:00 PM
It seems like somebody in Congress has had to wait for a long… It seems like somebody in Congress has had to wait for a long train to pass and is now taking some revenge. The latest infrastructure bill funds a study to limit train length to 7,500 ...
by Tom Moore on Nov 15, 2021 7:00:00 PM
Trucking…Ocean…Package Trucking: Driver shortfall: 80,000 Parts shortage is forcing some carriers to cannibalize some trucks to get other vehicles running LTL carrier Old Dominion getting 10.1% more per cwt this year than last – and that excludes ...
by Tom Moore on Nov 1, 2021 8:00:00 PM
The distance you can afford to move an item depends on its value divided by its cost to ship. High value-per-pound or per-cube items, like electronics, can come to a long distance – Refrigerators, not so far. With ocean freight going sky-high (see ...
by Tom Moore on Oct 25, 2021 8:00:00 PM
Joint employer rule could ride again (Shenanigans at the NRLB). It is ugly, and it is involved. So here goes…. In 2015, wanting to unionize workers in 3PL and fast food industries, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned 30 years' of ...
by Tom Moore on Oct 18, 2021 8:00:00 PM
JB Hunt (JBH) is a great barometer of the industry. It confirms what we already know: Brokerage – all the revenue increases are not being passed onto the underlying carriers. This does not bode well for their health (JBH Gross profit margins ...
by Tom Moore on Oct 4, 2021 8:00:00 PM
Goldman Sachs is predicting oil at $90/barrel THIS YEAR! This comes at a time of contradictions in our government: Encouraging OPEC to pump more oil “to support the world economy” but discouraging US drilling (Permits on Federal land down 75%) ...
by Tom Moore on Sep 27, 2021 8:00:00 PM
Gartner has named our sister´s company and its product AutoScheduler a “Cool Vendor.” “AutoScheduler.ai is one of the first vendors to commercially apply sophisticated constraint-based optimization techniques to planning and managing work in a ...
Our founding team of supply chain veterans and ML experts has created one of the most sophisticated suites of optimization tools in the supply chain world. Let us show you.