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How the best shippers manage capacity challenges

DAT Solutions

What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. Here's what they had to say.

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How the best shippers manage capacity challenges

DAT Solutions

What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. Here's what they had to say.

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A Complete Breakdown of the 26th State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

The transportation sector of the logistics industry grew by 3.6 As a result, the link between the cost of crude oil, gas prices, and consumer spending comes back to the forefront of the transportation industry. Unfortunately, others have seen container traffic come to a dead halt, as was the case in Portland, Oregon.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. Content Summary: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant. UPS’ eBike electric bike program, activated in Portland, Ore., Moving around a large factory can be exhausting.

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How Did Truckers Find Loads 40 Years Ago?

DAT Solutions

He liquidated the business in 1991, and in 1997 he and two other partners started another trucking company, Hiawatha Transport, which they later sold. Rather than retire, in 2010 Schultz accepted a job in the transportation division of Ashley Furniture, the world's largest furniture maker, based in Arcadia, Minnesota.

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

Leveraging the best manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, maximising productive efficiency, and accessing management expertise early , are the strategies that will set the best apart. How many due to transport issues? Unleashed has also offered some helpful features that manufacturers need to run their businesses.

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Have Spot Market Rates Bottomed Out?

DAT Solutions

Yet the freight surges that many of us have been accustomed to seeing at this time have been noticeably absent. For multiple reasons, spot market freight volumes and rates have been trending down for most of 2015 -- van rates since March, and flatbed and reefer rates since June. PMI Sectors Produce More Freight Than NMI Counterparts.