Operations and Supply Chain Management
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.
Stord
MAY 2, 2022
That resulted in bottlenecks, such as the record backlogs at the port of Los Angeles, where container ships waited for weeks to offload cargo. When there aren’t enough transport workers to move goods, supply chains break down–quickly. Younger generations are far less interested in transport jobs. Louis and St.
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DAT Solutions
MAY 10, 2016
Rob LaForte, owner of Columbia Fresh Transportation Services, says his transportation management software (TMS) will be a great help in storing and retrieving the documentation required by the new FDA food safety rule. The new rule defines brokers as shippers, making them equally responsible for ensuring food safety during transport.
New Horizon Supply Chain Blog
AUGUST 1, 2022
Yet in most companies, such plans seldom take into account transportation capacity or availability. Companies may have very capable transportation management systems (TMS), but these are used for execution, after purchase orders have already been placed and shipments planned, rather than during the planning stage, when key decisions are made.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
APRIL 24, 2015
9: 3M’s Transportation Load Control Center: In 1982, 3M, like every other company, had to leave transportation decisions to each plant and distribution center. Roy Mayeske, at that time the Executive Director of 3M Transportation, had the idea to centralize transportation planning to look for network synergies.
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