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Where have all the Truckers Gone? 10 Strategies for Shippers to Fight the Capacity and Trucker Shortage

GlobalTranz

will face shortages in trucking resources again , predominatly a trucker shortage, in the near future due to an array of developments that may cause shippers to find loads left on the ground, shipping costs rapidly escalating, and shrinking profit margins that stun stakeholders. 2009 was an exception due to the 2008–2009 recession.)

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Limestone Extraction from Florida Quarries!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The Lake Belt region in Miami-Dade county has the best quality limestone in Florida. The quarry’s location on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Mexico allows it to ship its product throughout the state and nationwide, as well as internationally. During this First Spanish period, the first construction began in St. Star Quarries.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The investigation into the activity at PCA began in 2009, after the U.S. This accepted certification failed to pick-up a decade of PCA quality issues: holds, recall, and customer complaints. This confession comes seven years after selling of contaminated food. What happened?

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Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

The path I took came through R&D where I had many different roles including R&D management and quality assurance. In prestige beauty and nutritional supplements, the cost to ship the product is minuscule. We must also have a consistent supply of quality product. The product is light, compact, and high value.

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Who's Really Running Your Retail Operation?

C3 Solutions

But WMS only really came into its own after the 2009 recession , as the economic rebound prompted the beginning of the e-commerce boom and renewed consumer spending. WMS helps to manage the four main tasks of a warehouse: receiving, storing, picking and shipping.

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NASCES 2016: End-to-End Supply Chain Management Transformations

Kinaxis

I’m a pretty jaded conference goer, so it is difficult to please me, but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the keynotes and sessions I attended. What kept nagging at me though is that the presentations were largely about “righting the ship” rather than “moving from ship to air.”

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This Week in Logistics News (May 16-20, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Five years later in 2009, I also predicted that a leading logistics service provider would acquire a leading logistics software company. Amazon is looking to license or acquire technology that could find the most efficient shipping routes and hire fleets of trucks, ships and planes to move sellers’ goods.