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This Week in Logistics News (January 28 – February 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

For the second straight year between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, Tom Brady has announced his retirement from the NFL. It remains the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, with a plan of powering its operations with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025 – a full five years ahead of its original target.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

However, members of the shippers and providers panel at the CSCMP press conference stressed that the tradeoff is a welcome improvement to safety now that drivers cannot cheat on their logbooks. million workers short of needs by 2025 -- an estimate issued three years before the current economic surge.

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Duke Energy CEO Talks About Leadership

Supply Chain View from the Field

Good noted that “When we think about leadership, we think about 3 things: customers, innovation, and the community.” ” Good noted that “the customer has to be at the center of anything we do.” ” Customer services involves two primary dimensions in the energy industry: Reliability and Price.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. Many IBP cycles around the world are based on a 20-year-old process definition supported by 20-year-old planning concepts. New Wave 3 Technology can empower a more efficient and responsive planning process.

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Trends and Predictions 2020: Digital Transformation

Enterra Insights

During a 2017 conference, Tricia Wang ( @triciawang ), a self-described Tech Ethnographer & Sociologist, told participants, “A lot of companies treat digital as if they are ‘doing digital’ — this is ‘digitization’ at its worst — as if it’s some checklist of things to do. .” ” Multi-cloud environments.