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.
by Tom Moore on Jun 15, 2020 8:00:00 PM
I don’t usually go into something that is not mainstream, but this is instructive. HCSB bank lost $200 Million dollars in one day because it couldn’t move gold from London to New York to address a disparity between the price of gold in London vs. ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 8, 2020 8:00:00 PM
A fixed dock schedule is a fantasy – we all recognize that $#!T happens…and the schedule must adjust on the fly. Check out what we believe is the only dynamic dock schedule here Good news for the economy: US jobs report follow-up – the 2.5MM adds ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 1, 2020 8:00:00 PM
Uber Freight lost $64 million in the first quarter despite a 57% jump in revenue to $199 Million (i.e., It is losing 33¢ on every dollar of revenue). Commentary from the Wall Street Journal : “Uber Freight has had a significant impact on its market ...
by Tom Moore on May 26, 2020 8:00:00 PM
To Benjamin Norman and David Segal: you are wrong about the US Logistics system – just give it a little time. “Nobody could make supply chains sing like the United States. And now maybe nobody can, period. Credit… Benjamin Norman for The New York ...
by Tom Moore on May 18, 2020 8:00:00 PM
There is a ton of data out there…but who uses it for good purposes? When will mainline software suppliers, who make the WMS, TMS, and YMS everybody uses, start to think about using data to help productivity? Every article I read about Artificial ...
by Tom Moore on May 11, 2020 8:00:00 PM
The Postal Service, which is, for the most part, a government-mandated disaster, wants… The Postal Service, which is, for the most part, a government-mandated disaster, wants $75 billion for coronavirus relief. The reality is that USPS was pretty ...
by Tom Moore on May 4, 2020 8:00:00 PM
Most warehouses use the time the trailer leaves to sequence picking, etc. It all makes sense in a perfect world….but we know that we all try to pick and load ahead. And we know that this creates problems as inbound inventory may not have arrived ...
by Tom Moore on Apr 27, 2020 8:00:00 PM
Bigger ships. While over 400 sailings have been canceled since February on key lanes, a new… Bigger ships. While over 400 sailings have been canceled on key lanes since February, a new container ship is being launched: the Megamax. This giant ship ...
by Tom Moore on Apr 20, 2020 8:00:00 PM
Not many people woul\d call it a warehousing problem, but simply put, there is almost no place to put oil production…storage facilities (tank farms = warehouses) are full. When I asked one oil executive last week when they would use pipelines to ...
by Tom Moore on Apr 13, 2020 8:00:00 PM
JIT (just-in-time) inventory policies are being blamed for shortages of medical equipment and toilet paper. My comment is… JIT (just-in-time) inventory policies are being blamed for shortages of medical equipment and toilet paper. My comment is: ...
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.