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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 2.25-3.1

Freight Plus

“With Platinum’s support, we will continue to execute on our customer-centric growth strategy, which focuses on offering best-in-class customs brokerage, trade compliance and logistics services to more than 30,000 businesses in the U.S., Although the numbers aren’t great, they’ve been steadily growing since 2015. Morgan analysts.

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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S. The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S.

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Billion Dollar Port Plan Brings Mega-Retailer To Mexico

Elementum

The route is part of the the Kansas City Southern (KCS) network and is one of a few new options carriers like Maersk (the company Walmart contracts) have started to provide as an alternative to the West Coast port congestion. Are Mexico’s Port Investments Prescient or Presumptuous?

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

On the one side there is the medical aspect, which calls for various specialised logistics approaches , and on the other, the hotel/catering aspect. Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure.

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Looking Back on a Fulfilling Career in the Transportation Industry

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Mark Bogucki, our general manager in Kansas City, recently announced he would retire at the end of 2015. These carriers often had a very solid customer base in head haul lanes but utilized brokers or third party logistics (3PL) providers to fill empty lanes. Since joining C.H. Pricing was also based on a published tariff.