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REPOST: The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America.

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Understanding Conrail with Brian Gorton

The Logistics of Logistics

Brian is the President & Chief Operating Officer of Conrail Shared Assets, which serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. In 2007, it expanded its operations from Northern New Jersey to Staten Island, New York. Advantages of rail transport: .

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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 – ushering in smart phone apps and all the rest in very quick succession. For transportation and logistics – the revolution to decarbonize is likewise well underway. Electric Transportation. Before that, all the needed elements would not yet have been in place.

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The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America.

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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

Speakers are the SCRC meeting yesterday and today continued to speak more on the topic of transportation strategy given increasing challenges in the transportation sector, and the need for an effective transportation management strategy. In the last 1880s the first Interstate Commerce Act rregulated trains.

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The Women in Trucking Story with Ellen Voie

The Logistics of Logistics

She has been honored by the White House as a Transportation Innovator Champion of Change. Ellen was appointed to the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Entry Level Driver Training Advisory Committee. The mission is to increase the ranks of women employed in transportation careers. About Women in Trucking.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. Few are given training on the technology deployed. Less than 10% of supply chain business leaders completed formal supply chain training, yet, all believe that they know the definition of supply chain excellence. The public markets struggled today with the plunge in oil prices.