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Omnichannel is another Word for Complexity

Enterra Insights

Consumers now take the digital path to purchase more often than not; but, they don’t care what retailers call their shopping journey or what strategies companies use to make the shopping journey a seamless one. ” Once a consumer completes his or her digital path to purchase (i.e., ’ They simply just shop.”[1]

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The Uberization of Trucking Part 2: The Players

Freight Plus

After turning the taxi medalion industry on its ear in the mid-2010's and pivoting focus to autonomous vehicles, tech is aiming to expand the scope of their influence. As the Wallstreet Journal reported. Uship isn't alone in their quest to Uberize freight. co-founder Garrett Camp. co-founder Garrett Camp.

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Parcels' role in Intermodal Rail

Cathy Roberson

According to the Association of American Railroads (AAR), the estimated cost of a nationwide freight railroad shutdown is more than $2 billion a day. This figure also includes the shipment of e-commerce purchases and other small parcel shipments. This will add additional costs to UPS’ bottom line should that happen.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Kuehne + Nagel Inc.