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Most Popular Blog Posts of 2012

The Logistics of Logistics

Please check out the most popular blog posts of 2012. In a perfect world, LTL carriers would pick up freight and deliver it on the agreed upon day for a fair price. Of course, all the freight would arrive undamaged and the invoice would always match the quoted price. Most Popular Blog Posts – 2012 (pdf).

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Emergency Freight: What Harvey Tells Us About Irma

DAT Solutions

Less than ten days after Hurricane Harvey, trucks are already moving freight out of Houston, with almost the same volume as before the storm. Houston is also a major freight hub for rail and sea traffic, as well as trucking, including trade with Mexico by land and with South America and other regions by sea. It's just not safe.

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Green Supply Chain Management - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Less use of air freight, increased use of rail and sea transport. Business Assurance: Supply Chain Blogs. Procurement Blog. December 2012. November 2012.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. All rights reserved.

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Hidden ROI you need to know - Strategic Transportation Tech Stack

Freight Plus

Part five of a five-part series on the hidden benefits you can expect from working with a digital freight management company like Aborn & Co. As experts in freight management solutions, we are focused each day on providing the best technology to our customer base available in the market. What does all this cost?

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This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Reports 2012 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results. Cass Freight Index Report – January 2013. Robinson and Con-way both reported Q4 and full-year 2012 results this week. percent in 2012 compared to 2011 (including contribution from acquisitions). percent in Q4 2012. While we wait for the storm… C.H.

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Logistics Clusters (Guest Post by Yossi Sheffi, MIT)

SCM Research

Thank you for contributing to my blog. As I argue in my new book Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (MIT Press, October 2012), these entities have a number of unique, and generally underestimated, attributes. These benefits attract more companies, which in turn bring further efficiencies within reach.