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
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
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
Last Thursday, I attended a morning session on the NAFTA trade with Mexico put on by several organizations including the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). Here some of the things I learned at that event. US-Mexico trade has … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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