Author Archives: Julian Blumenthal

About Julian Blumenthal

Retired Supply Chain professional

Oct 22

Truckload Bids

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

In a Supply Chain Digest video conference, MIT’s Chris Caplice, Executive Director for the Center of Transportation and Logistics at MIT, said something that was surprising. Studies show he noted that over a third of the time the winning bidder … Read More →

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Oct 02

Predicting the future

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

For many years, I worked in the salt industry. A significant part of the business was selling salt for the purpose of deicing winter streets and sidewalks. Every year about this (September or October), people would say in my presence … Read More →

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Sep 17

The Ultimate Supply Chain Risk

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

What is the ultimate supply chain risk? Imagine a natural disaster destroying your business facilities and/ or the community around it, preventing your employers for working. Obviously this risk involves more just the organization’s supply chain. But should it occur, … Read More →

Posted in Infrastructure, Logistics, Logistics Safety, Management, Public Policy, Supply Chain, Sustainability | Tagged Supply Chain Disaster Planning | Leave a comment

Sep 10

How to Over Communicate

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

On Monday evening, I heard Scott Case of Position:Global speak to the Chicago area Logistics, Operations and Supply Chain Group (LOSC) about how social media can used to promote and market 3PL firms. It causes me to think about communicating … Read More →

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Aug 25

Gaining Control by losing it.

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

For mid-size and large organizations the supply chain and logistics process is engaged on two levels, the high level, international space station level, where grand strategies and processes are designed for the organization. Then there is the lower level over … Read More →

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Aug 06

What is missing in logistics education

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

I met this week with Mitchell Estrada of the Chit Chat group, www.chitchatgroup.com, who has started a logistics education company. Among our topics of discussion was what college does not teach you and perhaps it should. Among the topics not … Read More →

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Jul 21

Increases in parcel costs

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

There are going to be some significant domestic US ground parcel rate increases coming around the first of the year 2015, when UPS and FedEx go to dimensional pricing. Lets take an example. Suppose today you ship 5 pounds from … Read More →

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Jul 13

Helping your organization South Loop Logistics

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

In 2013, I started a consulting practice entitled South Loop Logistics. Supply Chain, Logistics and Transportation is my life’s work and something I really enjoy doing. You can reach me at ju****@****************cs.com or 312-408-0663. How can South Loop Logistics help … Read More →

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Jul 06

Changes for Truck Brokers

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

DC Velocity in their current issue has an article about the challenges traditional truck brokers have in the current market, found here: http://bit.ly/1ocNZjC. For the shipper these challenges means market changes and additional risks. For decades, a person could start … Read More →

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Jun 09

When to change

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

My last post was on the importance of middle management. It can be found here: http://southlooplogistics.com/middle-management-stuck-in-the-middle-with-you/ There is another aspect of middle managers administration that is important, and that is change. I want to address two separate issues here, process … Read More →

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