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Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future

Talking Logistics

From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond, a slew of market forces, some predictable and some unexpected, have combined to create a very real truck capacity shortage in the United States. The past, present and future market forces causing today’s extreme truck capacity shortage include: Strong Economy. Holiday Season.

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A “New Normal” in the Truckload Industry

Talking Logistics

Steve explains that a key factor is capacity utilization rate and the narrowing gap between the cyclical highs and lows of utilization. Steve says that according to research firm FTR Associates, effective truckload utilization since 2011 has been running in the high 90s to 100 percent, with the low points still up in the 90s.

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How to Fulfill Orders When You Don’t Have Enough Product to Meet Demand

MIT Supply Chain

In the first stage of the pandemic, many automotive manufacturers reduced their orders, anticipating a downturn in vehicle sales. For example, General Motors scrambled to find scarce materials in 2011 after a trifecta of disasters?—?an Companies need to think about how they are going to address this challenge.

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Types of Risks Impacting Supply Chains in 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

For example, an analysis carried out by AIR on the potential impact of Hurricane Harvey on regional manufacturing found that, based on percentage of the total potential revenue loss, the top three subsectors are petroleum and coal products manufacturing (37%), chemical manufacturing (13%), and oil and gas extraction (12%).

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All I Want in My Easter Basket is a Supply Chain Planning System of Record

Logility

In many cases you will discover that processes like demand, inventory, replenishment, and manufacturing planning are limited by a lack of software capability. the earthquake and tsunami of 2011), risk mitigation scenarios can be modified and run to assess the impact and decide what actions to take. When a disruption takes place (e.g.

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

The top companies in 2011 included the following: Microsoft. However, it is also noteworthy here that many of the companies in the top 10 do not manufacture anything, but outsource their manufacturing to “contract manufacturers” such as Flex, TSMC, FoxConn, ThermoFisher, and others. Johnson and Johnson.

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Delivering Green: Three Case Studies in Low-Carbon Logistics

MIT Supply Chain

Ocean Spray, CSX (the rail operator), and fruit shipping companies partnered in order to enable Ocean Spray to ship more products intermodally from its New Jersey distribution center to the company’s Florida facility. Traditionally, manufacturers use trucks, or a mix of trucks and rail, to transport their products to customers.