The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2023

Doug is the CEO of Echo Global Logistics , a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. Doug Waggoner has served as Chief Executive Officer of Echo Global Logistics since December 2006 and was a Board member from 2008-2021. About Doug Waggoner. About Echo Global Logistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Virtually all of those startups disappeared by 2002 — they either burned through all of their investment money or were acquired by bigger fish. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). Real-time freight visibility is quickly becoming a “must have” capability for transportation managers.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

Insufficient on-the-job training — Over the period from 2002 to 2013, investments in internal training programs such as apprenticeships, company classroom training, and other structured on-the-job skills development for current manufacturing employees were cut from 469,000 to 288,000 (nearly 40 percent). Annually, 3.2 - 3.5

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that to manage logistics you have to manage relationships with people in the supply chain, and I also learned that there is an informal network of relationships that had to be managed in the supply chain… this was in 2002. In 2006 – we had a simple outsourcing model.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. The Panamanian government decided to enlarge the Panama Canal in 2006. Gibraltar and Suez during World War II).

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