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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. TMS. ,” says Bart De Muynck, Gartner’s research vice president, transportation technology to. Transport Topics. FedEx Freight drivers are now delivering large items to homes in 5 cities as part of the pilot program.

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The Demise of Yellow Corporation

American Global Logistics

Third, it was the fifth-largest transportation company with over ^5 market share. Yellow Corporation: A Brief History Yellow was founded in 1924 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. With the loss of Yellow, LTL capacity declined. That loss of capacity declined so much that it led to increased rates for shippers.

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

Kinaxis

Supply chain planners (I’m lumping in all the silos, including demand, supply, inventory and capacity planning) today are dealing with challenges that were unimaginable when Lotus notes were the next big thing. 2013 – Massive tornado packing 200 mph winds in the Oklahoma City area. Times have changed. 2015 – Nepal earthquake, 7.8

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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. Moller-Maersk A/S , the maritime shipping giant that has been diversifying into land transportation, is betting that driverless trucks will help make deliveries more reliable. Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc.