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by Tom Moore on Aug 15, 2023 10:32:00 AM
Diageo, which makes Johnnie Walker, has successfully reduced damage and eliminated a lot of packaging waste (141 million boxes) by unboxing its product. This move not only supports sustainability but also significantly lowers transportation costs ...
by Tom Moore on Aug 14, 2023 10:34:00 AM
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by Tom Moore on Aug 14, 2023 10:31:00 AM
Harold J. Daggett incentivizes economic failure by supporting anti-optimization endorsements while Yellow Corp. Files Bankruptcy Post Government Bailout Did you know that US Taxpayers own 30% of the stocks for this company? You own stock due to the ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 14, 2023 7:00:00 PM
Getting more carrier capacity the expensive way: Buy trucks – the backlog at truck assembly lines in North America has grown to 205,000 orders – up sharply from 89,300. Getting more carrier capacity cheaply: Ryder, which rents trucks and trailers, ...
by Tom Moore on Sep 15, 2022 8:28:19 AM
While 2 unions are threatening a walkout this week, if there isn’t a stoppage, there will be more humping. Even if there is a stoppage, when they come back to work, there will be more humping. Before your mind goes in the wrong direction, humping is ...
by Tom Moore on Sep 7, 2022 10:07:50 AM
Railroads are limiting container loads to locations like Chicago. Here is why: Inland container yards are full Warehouses are full. Prologis Inc. said the vacancy rate in the firm’s top 30 U.S. markets is 3%—good for them but historically, vacancy ...
by Tom Moore on Sep 1, 2022 5:35:54 PM
LevelLoad and AutoO2 eliminate deployment (e.g., from plant to customer-facing distribution centers) volatility using a combination of: Tendering early smooth freight volumes over time by pushing lower-priority deployment demand to a later day and ...
by Tom Moore on Aug 30, 2022 2:24:42 PM
I advocate weighing the trucks to see where payload targets should be set. Here is a sample of refrigerated trucks from major carriers in 2021. What does this tell you? In this sample, which was large enough to be valid, 69% of all trucks could ...
by Tom Moore on Aug 28, 2022 10:10:23 AM
Good News (Price will go down): Today: Crude oil prices are way down + refiners’ margins are down by ~50% Future: High prices ~$100/barrel for oil and $9+ for gas mean that economically recoverable reserves rise. e.g. Eagle Ford sees a fifteen-fold ...
by Tom Moore on Aug 25, 2022 10:44:16 AM
The Cass freight index appears to show expenditures and Shipments tracking fairly closely. Case Freight index The same is not true for bulk ocean freight. The London-based Baltic Exchange index is a weighted average based on 11-20 international ship ...
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.