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Reflections on Manifest with Courtney Muller

The Logistics of Logistics

Manifest 2024, was bigger and better than ever and Manifest 2025 will be held February 10th – 12th, 2025 in Las Vegas. Clarion Events bought Urban in 2016 and Courtney continued to help build the division of Clarion. Which might be the reason she loves the travel and pace of the events industry!

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017

Talking Logistics

If you’re a transportation professional, for example, and all you know is transportation, your opportunities for advancement are limited compared to someone who has a broader supply chain perspective. TMS for SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt (CSCMP 2016). SMC3 Connections 2016). JDA Focus 2016).

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This Week in Logistics News (May 9-13, 2016)

Talking Logistics

March 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). On Wednesday Hyperloop One (one of several companies, including Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , focused on bringing this idea to life) conducted a test of its propulsion system in North Las Vegas. America’s infrastructure $1.44

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2016

Talking Logistics

Take a look at your budget for 2016, which is probably finalized by now. If you’re a transportation professional, for example, and all you know is transportation, your opportunities for advancement are limited compared to someone who has a broader supply chain perspective. Happy learning and networking in 2016!

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

WTO: Trade growth to remain subdued in 2016 as uncertainties weigh on global demand. Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. Analysts at Stifel Inc. Hub Group Inc.,

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More on The Future of Delivery (Takeaways from MercuryGate Velocity 2017 User Conference)

Talking Logistics

Many transportation and logistics software companies were launched in the late 1990s and early 2000s, during the height of the dotcom era, but very few of them survive today — they either went bankrupt or were acquired by others. When asked, “How is transportation viewed by upper management at your company?”

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This Week in Logistics News (December 14-18, 2015)

Talking Logistics

surface transportation infrastructure, more congestion and a significant environmental impact. In short, the trucking industry faces more of the same in 2016: more regulations, lawsuits, mergers and acquisitions, and cost pressures (increases in driver pay and benefits balanced by lower oil and diesel prices).