Author Archives: Julian Blumenthal

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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Apr 13

Changes shipping to or from Mexico.

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

There are big changes in the transportation and custom regulations going into and out of Mexico from the US. They are described in an article by Jim and Chris Giermanski Supply and Demand Chain Executive March 2014 magazine at:http://bit.ly/1jCM88f. For … Read More →

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Mar 24

Panama Canal Expansion

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

Last Thursday I attended a joint meeting of the Traffic Club of Chicago and CSCMP Chicago Roundtable on the subject of the Panama Canal expansion which will allow bigger ships to cross that country. It was a story of people … Read More →

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Mar 20

Big data and management

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

I had an opportunity to hear Krish Krishnan Monday evening March 20, 2014 speak on his subject Big Data to the Chicago area Logistics, Operations and Supply Chain Professionals (LOSC). He has worked with many leading companies. If you get … Read More →

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Mar 14

Electronic Logs

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

Within the next few days. the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will put out a proposal for electronic logs for all heavy duty trucks and buses. http://bit.ly/1qDvnxA Yes, it will cost money to put these devices in tractors, however electronic … Read More →

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Feb 20

Arthimetic in the Supply Chain

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

One of the study themes of my blog is that numbers are a tool that needs to used wisely. Let me use a non-logistics / supply chain example to illustrate this. This week there was in the Chicago Tribune an … Read More →

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Jan 31

What Atlanta can teach the Supply Chain

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

Early this week Atlanta came to a complete halt. What can this event teach a person in supply chain and logistics? In truth, most supply chain / logistics people must be secretly smiling themselves because they have experienced minor versions … Read More →

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Jan 24

Planning for New Products

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

Recently there was an interview with Allyson Hatfield with the Supply Chain Brain, which can be found here: http://bit.ly/1eY7UQ0 Allyson Hatfield is responsible for the demand planning for new products at Campbell Soup. Almost all the old line food companies … 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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Jan 03

No demand information

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Julian Blumenthal

I watched a video of Jarrod Goenzel, Director MIT Humanitarian Response Lab. The link is here: http://bit.ly/1bDLro0. Early on in the video, Jarrod Goenzel talks about one of the major supply chain / logistics problems in humanitarian logistics being that … Read More →

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Author Archives: Julian Blumenthal

Truckload Capacity

Changes shipping to or from Mexico.

Panama Canal Expansion

Big data and management

Electronic Logs

Arthimetic in the Supply Chain

What Atlanta can teach the Supply Chain

Planning for New Products

Transportation as a commodity

No demand information

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