Current Trends in the Transportation Market and How to Respond
A song lyric from one of my favorite bands, Oingo Boingo, goes, “We close our eyes and the world has turned around again.” Those words certainly could apply to the transportation market, especially this year. What is the current state of the market? How might it change in the weeks and months ahead? What actions […]
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Weather Related Service Update: Beta and Teddy
Beta will continue to bring heavy rainfall and flooding to parts of Texas and Louisiana, with areas of rainfall also gradually spreading across the Southeast. Elsewhere, Hurricane Teddy will remain in the Atlantic, but bring dangerous rip currents, high surf, and swells to much of the East Coast. A low pressure system in the northeastern […]
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Millennial Management
Millennials are the generation born between 1981-1996, and they are the largest generation in the workforce today. This will continue to increase as generation X begins to retire and gen Z enters the workforce. We have already begun seeing millennials take on management roles, which has brought a new type of leadership style. What is […]
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China Tariffs: A Lawsuit + WTO Ruling
If it wasn’t for the COVID-19 pandemic, the trade war with China (along with Brexit) would still be dominating the global trade headlines. Back in November 2019, for example, we published Trade And Tariffs: Preparing For The Year Ahead, which highlighted my conversation with Ben Bidwell, Director of U.S. Customs at C.H. Robinson, about what […]
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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (September 18, 2020)
In an alternate universe, one without COVID-19, I would be writing today about our Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure cycling team and the JDRF Ride to Cure we did last weekend in Saratoga Springs, NY. But in this universe, there was no JDRF ride last weekend; it was reimagined due to the pandemic. The reimagined […]
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During my vacation last month, I picked out an old book to read again: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The book was published in 1997 and it was made into a movie too. If you like literary fiction, I highly recommend the book, which is about a “sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned Confederate soldier who […]
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Editor’s Pick: Best Practices For Optimizing The Last Mile
Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This post from Descartes’ knowledge center provides an overview of the Top 10 best practices for establishing, managing and measuring effective […]
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Supply Chain Mapping (Insights from Indago)
In the post Hidden Suppliers Can Make or Break Your Operations (Harvard Business Review, May 2015), the authors write, “With the size and complexity of supply chains soaring, a daunting challenge is confronting companies: identifying the critical nodes hidden within the vast expanse of their supply networks.” The coronavirus outbreak has put supply chain risk […]
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Weather Related Service Update: Sally
Sally is expected to intensify to a hurricane by tonight and make landfall in the hurricane warning area on Tuesday. Hurricane warnings extend from Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Mississippi/Alabama border. Impacts of an extremely dangerous and life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds and torrential rain with flash flooding from Sally will likely begin later today. […]
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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (September 11, 2020)
Today is September 11. As a kid who grew up in Brooklyn with a view of the Twin Towers from my bedroom window, I will never forget. Where were you on September 11, 2001 when the planes hit the towers? How I yearn, sometimes, to go back to my childhood bedroom, back to those hot […]
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