There are lots of driverless trucks articles out of late. There is talk that a truck can do 1000 miles in one day therefore make multi-warehouses redundant. Realizing there is already one driverless truck out there Volo is testing in … Read More
This essay is about being your best self and applying it your work environment. Supply chain practitioners bring to work environment, process skills, organizational skills, supply chain skills, and financial skills. These are all important disciplines brought to the work … Read More
The long Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lines at airports is in many ways similar to supply chain/logistics issues. Many we will say that TSA is government therefore incompetent, as though the for-profit sector never had a major bankruptcy or a … Read More
Watching and listening to the 2016 Presidential campaigns, you get the sense there are lots of angry voters out there. Since this is a supply chain/logistics blog, I wondered about anger in the supply chain. As any person in the … Read More
Last week, the Chicago Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) visited Magid Glove in Romeoville, IL. Magid had a number of stories to tell about moving from an old outdated facilities in Chicago, IL to a … Read More
By thinking and viewing numbers holistically, I mean numbers need to looked at the context of their environment. I ran across a fun example of what I mean by this on Youtube in non-logistics, non-supply chain example, but I will … Read More
The inspiration of this article came from two different venues, the Bible and college basketball. In the telling of Exodus. God directs the Israelites out of Egypt on a zigzag course deliberately, so as avoiding an immediate battle with the … Read More
I was at a networking meeting telling people I work in logistics, and stranger listening responded saying nobody wants trailers near them. I was curious what that meant. With a bit of conversation, it was learned that the firms he … Read More
The attached article is a good essay on why details are so important to transportation shipments. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unsung-heroes-supply-chain-management-transportation-becker-pmp-mba?published=t In the world of import-exports there are ways to get big fines for your organization, which not only money for the fine itself, … Read More
In the supply chain and logistics, your job success depends not only on your own work but whether you can get others inside and outside your organization to work together on ways to increase efficiency and resolve problems that come … Read More