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by Tom Moore on Jun 17, 2019 3:51:00 PM
FMI and GMA used to put on a joint Supply Chain Conference to discuss important “Trading Partner” issues, but it dwindled to mostly second-tier retailers and a few manufacturers (it will be smaller and transportation-focused this year). There are ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 16, 2019 8:36:00 PM
Yes, there is a mess in the center store. At the same time that Kroger tells us that their prices to the consumer are going DOWN, manufacturers like Smucker’s, ConAgra, General Mills, and Hershey tell us that costs are going UP! Something has to ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 16, 2019 8:34:00 PM
OMG – the Supreme Court allowed a class action suit against J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. to move ahead. Hunt had claimed that Federal transportation law doesn’t preempt California from setting its own rules on how truck drivers are paid and when they ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 16, 2019 2:14:00 PM
It is no secret that warehouses near urban markets have been a hot commodity. Blackstone has been buying them based on the belief that rents will rise rapidly…they already own 443 million square feet in the Americas. Much of this space is near major ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 10, 2019 8:00:00 PM
Last week, Mike Green and I witnessed a brilliant conference. Congratulations to the TPA (Trading Partner Alliance) for: Excellent case studies with practical, scalable results. Example: dock scheduling issues at the manufacturer cause 14% of ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 5, 2019 8:46:00 PM
This piece is long – but it is worth reading… Sea change #1: “Freight rates are becoming more dynamic and moving away from static rate tables in LTL,” according to Peter Moore (an academic writer in Logistics Management and no relation). This got me ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 3, 2019 8:00:00 PM
New York and New Jersey encourage strikes – how else can you explain: A new law in New Jersey allowing strikers to claim unemployment insurance in only 4 weeks A bill that the Governor hasn’t yet signed– but passed by the NY Senate – to allow ...
by Tom Moore on May 28, 2019 8:00:00 PM
Brokered freight is now 20% of all truck moves – up from 5% in 2000. But brokers are moving beyond just moving data. JB Hunt Brokerage, Convoy, and Uber, amongst others, are providing drop trailers to expedite shipments and enhance driver ...
by Tom Moore on May 20, 2019 8:00:00 PM
At last week’s Gartner conference, Simon Bailey (Analyst) talked about how getting on-time, in-full (OTIF) is harder. From 2015-2018 : Case fill is down 1.2% to 93.3% On time is down 1% to 90.6% But Monique Picou, VP at Walmart, made it clear that ...
by Tom Moore on May 6, 2019 8:00:00 PM
Amazon‘s freight brokerage platform has been testing for approved carriers to send shipments among five East Coast states since last year. (Sources CNBC) “This service, intended to utilize our freight network better, has been around in various forms ...
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.