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
Come October 1, 2013, there will be important changes when a shipper uses a broker. For reference see this DC Velocity article: http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20130805-take-this-load-and-follow-the-rules/ Come October 1, carriers can not broker a load out a shipper has given to them. This … Read More
Many smaller businesses have products they wish to sell to large retailers. There is a summary of Youtude video put out by Walmart in this article in Supply Chain Digest: http://www.scdigest.com/ontarget/13-08-21-3.php?cid=7335. (The Youtube reference: Walmart channel 8thandwalton: Walmart Senior Buyers … Read More
If you wanted to create a pricing system that is confusing, Less Than Truckload ( LTL ) pricing probably would be it. So let’s decode the complexity, lets use a little history. After that, let’s discuss what is coming down … Read More
Freight payment, the mere words create emotions of anguish, boredom and resignation. (Note the words “freight claims” has the same emotions, that is another post.) Yes, you know it needs to be done. You rather be spending your time solving … Read More
Many of have heard about A-B-C inventory planning where your A inventory turns over rapidly and your C inventory turns over slowly while your B inventory is somewhere in between. It is advantageous to think of your transportation spend the … Read More
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
One of the hardest thing to understand or know is costs of a vendor you might use to price your business. So when I read Joe Heligs article in page 10 of Parcel Magazine (http://bit.ly/12m2Eom) I knew I was reading … Read More
I recently heard a presentation at a joint Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce- Chicago Roundtable CSCMP by Andrea Farris, Vice President of Inventory and In Stock at Walgreens and Dan Smolensky, Principle at the Modal Group. The Modal Group is a … Read More
I recently finished H. Edwards Deming last book, The New Economics. I thought of particular interest to Logistics / Supply Chain Managers was the discuss of common versus special variance. Two particularly interesting examples of each. Common variance: A salesman … Read More