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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters. Procurement ran a request for proposal event.

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The Secret Sauce with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

and is transforming the $800 billion transportation and logistics industry with its digital freight marketplace platform. Mark McEntire is the Senior Vice President of Operations at Emerge , a freight technology firm that is reinventing freight procurement. Hunt Transport, Inc. About Mark McEntire . and Penske Logistics.

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Simmons Foods’ Approach to Transportation Spend

Logistics Viewpoints

On April 4 th , Kyle Masters – the senior manager of transportation procurement at Simmons Foods, participated in a webinar hosted by Emerge. The webinar focused on Simmons Food’s approach to transportation procurement. This family-owned business is headquartered in Siloam Springs Arkansas in the US.

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Misnomer

Supply Chain Shaman

When we started benchmarking companies, Deborah and I had a friendly wager. I believed that we would find a company with the lowest distribution costs (warehousing and transportation), and the lowest manufacturing costs, and this would result in the best overall cost structure. She asked me, ‘What was the impact on total costs?’