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by Tom Moore on Jul 16, 2018 2:47:00 PM
As we celebrate one revolution on July 4, there are other sea changes happening: Amazon is offering to finance individuals to compete with existing package delivery businesses While Amazon is setting up owner-operators, the teamsters and UPS have ...
by Tom Moore on Jul 9, 2018 8:00:00 PM
While we all see the need for highway construction, expenditure on road repairs is… While we all see the need for highway construction, expenditure on road repairs is down 2.9% in a country where roads are making it to the end of their useful life. ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 26, 2018 5:41:00 PM
We all know that if you want less of something, tax it. The Colorado DOT is looking to have less traffic ,so they have started testing variable tolls – when congestion is bad, it costs more to use the road. Problem solved. But that creates new ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 25, 2018 9:10:00 PM
One of the big challenges in optimizing the supply chain is the sheer mass of data and the time it takes to come up with a better solution. For example, rerouting trucks around a traffic jam without causing congestion somewhere else takes 45 minutes ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 18, 2018 8:00:00 PM
Maersk bought Hamburg Süd last year for $4 billion and is “taking one for the team” by reducing fleet size. Its current fleet of 750 ships includes 400 chartered vessels – i.e., it doesn’t own them. Maersk will not start returning them to their ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 16, 2018 8:39:00 PM
Farmers claim that the lack of reliability of the U.S. waterway system causes a 14% reduction in the prices they get for their grain. This uncertainty, driven by a lock system that is older than its planned 50-year life span, is very real. When a ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 4, 2018 8:00:00 PM
Micro unions: Consider this: 178 workers in Boeing’s Charleston operation were asked to… Micro unions: Consider this: 178 workers in Boeing’s Charleston operation were asked to vote to form a “Micro Union”. Such a union is permissible because “they ...
by Tom Moore on May 29, 2018 8:00:00 PM
One word from Saudi Arabia and the price of oil comes down fast even as Iran and Venezuela stumble. (See Graph from Noon Tuesday) Iran is on the cusp of punishing sanctions Venezuela – which sits on the world’s largest oil reserves – may not like ...
by Tom Moore on May 21, 2018 8:00:00 PM
Last week the Gartner conference highlighted… Last week the Gartner conference highlighted the digital revolution. While many presentations highlighted somewhat nebulous things – “where the rubber meets the sky” – one, Aera Technology, caught my ...
by Tom Moore on May 7, 2018 8:00:00 PM
We often talk about labor constraints, but there are many infrastructure bottlenecks, such as in this email the last year – the aging locks on the inland waterways or pipelines under capacity. A constraint just surfaced – very large crude carriers ...
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.