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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

E2open’s initial public offering, pushed with great ballyhoo was in July 2012. To create a standard electronic booking system for the ocean freight industry. The industry does not have a common definition. Each would like to see definitive futuristic flow to make better decisions to solve vastly different business problems.

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Will the Freight Industry Move to a Discounted Pricing Model Like the Stock Brokerage Industry?

The Logistics of Logistics

Will freight brokerage pricing evolve toward a discounted, transparent fee model like stock brokerage pricing? Could the Discount Pricing Model Work in Freight Brokerage? The stock brokerage business and the freight brokerage business are clearly different, but they also have enough characteristics in common, that we can compare them.

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How to Choose the Best Fleet Management Software!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A very simplified definition for Fleet management software is the software utilized by companies or organizations to help manage and operate a fleet of vehicles. He is also the author of “Rogue’s Guide to Acquisition: Principles from the Final Frontier” listed on Bill Gates Recommended Summer Reading of 2012.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

“You’ve got to tread carefully if you try to ratchet back ease of returns, so that you don’t drive your customer to your competitor,” said Chuck Johnston, who served as Walmart’s senior director of returns between 2005 and 2012 and is now the chief strategy officer at goTRG, a returns management company. But no hands went up—not one. “I

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Logistics at BR Williams

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Now that may sound funny, but if you break these two things down to their base definitions, the similarities begin to reveal themselves. We use these principles, along with some creativity, to service our customers by moving their freight as efficiently as possible.

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LTL Carrier Profile: UPS Freight

The Logistics of Logistics

LTL Carrier Profile: UPS Freight. UPS Freight is the fourth largest less than truckload (LTL) carrier with approximately $2.4B in sales (estimated 2012). UPS Freight has 6.9% UPS Freight is based in Richmond, Virginia. UPS Freight is a business segment of United Parcel Service, Inc. in sales in 2012.

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How to Survive a Buck-A-Mile Backhaul

DAT Solutions

In March 2012, there was only one major van lane paying $1.00 per gallon for diesel in 2012, and a lot of other costs had also risen well above historical levels. a mile in 2012, and they can't be covered now. On the upside, interest rates are at historic lows, but you might have more overhead now than you did in 2012.

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