Category Archives: Sustainability

Nov 17

The Future, Its About the Details

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

When I was a kid back in the 1960’s, I use to eagerly await the latest edition on television of the “Jetsons”, an animated cartoon of what it would be like in the future. With the flying cars, building mostly … Read More →

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Nov 10

Holiday Season Networking

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

The Holiday Season is not only can be a joyous season to be with your family, but I good time for low pressure networking with your business colleagues. The holiday get together are particularly good time to network because they … 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 →

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Apr 29

Truckload Capacity

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

An article in this week’s Journal of Commerce at: http://bit.ly/1kiFjYo, sites the raw statistics on truckload shortages. It quotes US Xpress Enterprises as saying it turned down 1,200 loads a day during the winter month and 600 loads a day … Read More →

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Jan 15

Transportation as a commodity

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

Here is an interesting video on supply chain brain about trends in transportation in a study by the University of Tennessee and Georgia Southern: http://bit.ly/1aoFnAv. It is interview of Mary Holcomb of the University of Tennessee by the magazine Supply … Read More →

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Dec 10

2014 Supply Chain Issues

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

In 2014, I do not expect Supply Chain and Logistics managers will spend lots of time worrying about shipping by drones, but here are some of the concerns they might have. The 2013 changes in hours of services have minimal … Read More →

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Oct 31

US-China Transportation Infrasturture

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

10/31/2013 Yesterday I attended a luncheon sponsored by The Chicago Council of Global Affairs on US-China Transportation Infrastructure. There are annual meetings between China and US on transportation infrastructure and this year’s was held in Chicago during a global trade … Read More →

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Oct 11

Omnichannel and Dominick’s

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

Two events yesterday drew my attention. I attended a program by the CSCMP Roundtable in Chicago at the Motorola Solutions Innovation Center where the topic was omnichannel order fulfillment. If you get a chance to visit the Innovation Center, take … Read More →

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Sep 04

Logistics of the Affordable Heath Care Act

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

After listening to Daren Whisman, Director of Financial Operations of Memorial Hermann, a health care organization in Texas, being interviewed on Supply Chain Brain at http://bit.ly/15u3kDL, it caused me to think about the supply chain and logistics affects of the … Read More →

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Jun 27

Sustainability, quick and dirty calculations

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Julian Blumenthal

Did you ever wonder how some firms calculated that a particular new solution would remove “X” amount of tons of carbon from its carbon footprint? What do you do you when you are small, can’t hire an expensive service to … Read More →

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