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Van freight stabilizes in early October

DAT Solutions

You’d expect this season to be more different from early October 2017, when Hurricanes Harvey and Irma still had a massive impact on supply chain operations. The throttle is a significant increase in capacity, especially among small and mid-sized carriers. But freight has mostly "normalized” on the spot market.

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6 River Systems Continues 2020 Momentum Led by Award Wins and New Global Deployment Sites

6 River Systems

6 River Systems has been working hard to support our customers and ensure their supply chain and fulfillment operations keep up with the ebbs and flows of their customer demands. Among these offerings are Chuck’s increased capacity, expanded international compliance and improved usability.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.14 - 1.18

Freight Plus

To combat areas shippers can’t control like capacity, rate hikes, and driver shortages, they’re turning to. In fact, in 2018 we saw investments go up across the entire supply chain technology spectrum.” Sluggish iPhone sales felt across Apple’s supply chain. TMS technology. to save via cost avoidance.

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Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois If you had anything to do with supply chain planning in the early days of enterprise resource planning (ERP), you may consider those years the “good ol’ days”. Aligning the supply plans to these new volatile demand profiles was no easy achievement. However, none of this physically destroyed your supply chain.

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The Demise of Yellow Corporation

American Global Logistics

trucking industry and supply chains. Yellow Corporation: A Brief History Yellow was founded in 1924 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Yellow’s financial struggles would continue affecting the trucking industry and supply chains. With the loss of Yellow, LTL capacity declined.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

The two main planks of the GSA would seek to tackle non-market excess capacity and carbon emissions. The holdup makes it exceedingly difficult for businesses to manage supply chains, it said. to test autonomous truck runs from Houston to Oklahoma City with a safety driver aboard. Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc.