Emails come, the phone rings, instant messages pop up and you have deadlines. You wonder how am I ever going to get anything done. You think to yourself, I will close off the world except maybe if my boss contacts … Read More
Think about transportation contracts between a carrier and a shipper. They are in three parts, two of which receive a lot of scrutiny, and the last part not so much. These three parts are liability considerations, rates, and the last … Read More
In the April 2015 edition of the supply chain magazine, DC Velocity, the lead story was entitled: “LEED or Follow” and can be found here: http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20150318-leed-or-follow/. The story is particularly good going over the various details needed to make a … Read More
I recently heard a presentation by Indiana University Professor of International Strategic Management, Dr. Marjorie Lyles, on the growing role of new position, Relationship Managers. Supply Chain is all about relationships with suppliers, transportation carriers and operators, storage facilities and … Read More
Sometimes popular press and certainly the internet has a bias to apocalypse now approach to life. It is fun to see if they remotely make practical sense. One of these I was about Governor Brown’s California water rations to cut … Read More
I recently heard the President and CEO of the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders speak. As an organization promoting transportation infrastructure, it finds itself in interesting times. In the good old days, infrastructure fuel taxes could be sold to voters … Read More
Last week I attended the ProMat convention, a material handling convention featuring vendors of sort of products from machines to software related to material handling. Among the educational seminars I attended was an educational session where the Physical Internet and … Read More
What is the “Physical Internet”? And is it remotely practical from a logistics practitioner’s point of view? Lastly, should we not rename the “Physical Internet” the “Supply Chain of Things”? Every once in a while one is humbled when a … Read More
Last week I had the opportunity to visit the Ulta Warehouse in Romeoville, IL. Ulta having been found in the Chicago area, this warehouse was at one time the only company warehouse. Now there is southeast and southwest warehouse, with … Read More
So after five months of decreasing through put, the West Coast Ports have an agreement and for the most part are going full bore to clean up the backup, which is expected to take several months. Finally! Assuming the union … Read More