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
In 2013, I started a consulting practice entitled South Loop Logistics. Supply Chain, Logistics and Transportation is my life’s work and something I really enjoy doing. You can reach me at ju****@so****************.com or 312-408-0663. How can South Loop Logistics help … 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 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
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
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
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
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
The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended straight truck drivers be required to have a commercial driver license. Please see this article in the website of Heavy Duty Trucking website: http://bit.ly/12wl2eo. The alarming number is straight truck drivers were in … Read More