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This Week in Logistics News (March 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Here’s the news that caught my attention this week: January 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Cass Freight Index – February 2015. business inventories flat, inventory-to-sales ratio highest since 2009 (Reuters). percent, the biggest decline since March 2009, after falling 1.0 percent in December.

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

That will be in 2015, after the peak of oil [supply].”. 2015 is less than three weeks away, and a barrel of Brent crude oil is $65.70 Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). million bbl/d in 2015.” . Big Data and Analytics for Oil and Gas Transportation.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

The editorial team at Analytics Insight notes, “The technological revolution that is currently happening in the agricultural sector became possible, among other things, due to big data. Collecting and analyzing big data can not only improve the productivity of individual farms but also help halt a global food crisis. revolution.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Will Chu, CEO at Vector!

Supply Chain Game Changer

I, along with my fellow co-founders, enjoy tackling problems at hand, and have been tackling them together since 2009. From 2009 to 2015, in the midst of a national recession, I served as Director, and later VP, of Engineering at Addepar, a wealth management platform.

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Treading Water

Supply Chain Shaman

Only 12% of public companies are making improvement during the period of 2009-2015 in both operating margin and inventory despite spending an average of 1.7% I am a self-professed data geek. Over the last decade, managing costs in the supply chain is becoming more and more difficult. of revenues on Information Technology (IT).

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

They went from #34 in 2015 to #18 in 2016. All data aside, this new category was primarily to remove Apple and P&G, so the words “we have a new #1” could be stated. Amazon had been spending a ton on assets, both data center and distribution, which killed their pre-2016 ROA ranking. Remember in 2015, Amazon’s ROA was 0.0%.

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Time to Squeeze Carriers for Better Rates?

Talking Logistics

Various data points related to the trucking industry suggest we’re entering a shipper’s market. There was a deceleration in freight volumes during the second half of 2015 which continued into the first month of 2016. percent in December from November , with December 2015 freight shipments down 2.0 percent from December 2014.