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by Tom Moore on Jan 23, 2024 11:38:50 AM
JBH earnings/share were $1.47, missing what Wall St. predicted would be $1.74. Some one-time costs, including one (they hope) related to insurance and another a function of losses on equipment sales. “We remain in a challenging environment, but we ...
by Tom Moore on Jan 17, 2024 10:21:59 AM
Cowen predicts truckload contract pricing will increase 1.6% in the next 6 months. This is ~half the long-term running average. My experience is that few companies use best practices when bidding on freight. The best practice is to bid: ...
by Tom Moore on Jan 9, 2024 3:22:34 PM
Things are changing: Slowing: Warehouse vacancy rates -- now 5.7% —double what it was in 2002 and up from 2019 (4.6%) Package delivery employment was down in December (yes, December). Costing more: 40-foot container spot rates Shanghai-to-Rotterdam ...
by Tom Moore on Jan 3, 2024 2:00:00 PM
Well, we have spoken at length about the value of optimized load building, and while we still believe it is the first thing you should do, there are significant savings to be made in the administration of supply and demand planning. At the recent ...
by Tom Moore on Dec 19, 2023 8:15:00 AM
Thanks to all our customers and friends, we've had a great year. We successfully removed 88,000 trucks from the road and are now integrating the highly effective LevelLoad into the offering, which will further enhance our efficiency and ...
by Tom Moore on Dec 12, 2023 2:09:00 PM
The summary of this brilliantly written article in SupplyChain Brain includes Joe Peppard’s key points about causes of failure: The illusion of control by upper management Conflicts of interest IT amnesia Managing expenses —not assets I add: Taking ...
by Tom Moore on Dec 5, 2023 1:54:13 PM
After serving in Vietnam, Tim came back and drove trucks. Then, he started his own trucking business. All these years later, Tim still complains about all the waiting he had to do at distribution centers. And while some shippers have made this ...
by Tom Moore on Nov 30, 2023 8:54:00 AM
Bridging the gap saves businesses millions on transportation spend. "Kimberly-Clark expects a supply-chain technology upgrade will save the consumer-goods supplier millions of dollars annually while improving product availability."(Logistics ...
by Tom Moore on Nov 28, 2023 2:16:00 PM
Amazon has become the largest parcel carrier in the US and is only likely to get bigger as it seeks more volume as a 3PL delivery agent. Rob Scheckman and I will be at Gartner’s Supply Chain Planning Summit this week and would love to connect. Send ...
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.