Supply Chain Optimization

Oil Prices Slide – Diesel Will Follow Slowly

Diesel prices will follow slowly The market didn’t respect all the pundits, and it didn’t follow the projections that it would be selling at $70/barrel. If it had known, the price would not have slid by more than 8% to end today at a little over ...

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Amazon and Uber

Amazon and Uber

Amazon is developing (or acquiring) technology to schedule and track truck shipments. It seems they want to play in the $150 Billion market for booking transportation. BP PLC aims to be able to be profitable with oil at $35 a barrel by 2021 and ...

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Fighting For Your Online Freight Bookings

DB Schenker took a $25 Million stake in…. DB Schenker took a $25 Million stake in the online freight booking platform uShip, which has been around for more than 10 yrs. The real question is which platform will become dominant – there are quite a ...

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Are WMS Upgrades Really Worth It? Oil Demand Down

Justifying a WMS software upgrade is pretty tough! Justifying a WMS software upgrade is pretty tough! Watching who upgrades their WMS, I can say, “Don’t do it for productivity gains.” It is one thing to have code that is old and another to have to ...

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Shakeup In Package Freight

Amazon is starting to impact airfreight but makes only small inroads to ground truckload transportation. It has already bought 4000 trailers – suggesting it is tendering 1-2000 loads per day…not earth-shattering. Airfreight is a different story – ...

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Scheduling Efficiency Key To Operations

CSX stock jumped more than 20% last week as Hunter Harrison announced that he, with some help from Wall Street funds, was attempting to force change at CSX. Harrison, who walked away from $89 million at Canadian Pacific Railroad, has a history of ...

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Dock Scheduling

Some CSX directors met with Hunter Harrison over the weekend to discuss his ascending to CEO. Recall that Hunter has made 3 railroads (ICG, CP, and CN) more efficient over his career. CSX would make it 4. This could be good news for both shippers ...

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Urgently-Needed Work On Domestic Waterways

While there will be a lot of fighting about the highway trust fund – a fund that is projected to go bankrupt next year as politicians use it to bankroll mass transit systems and other non-highway projects – unfortunately, there has been little talk ...

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