The Logistics of Logistics
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Mark spent over 7 years in leadership with the second largest freight brokerage in North America, Total Quality Logistics. One hundred percent of our customers are in trucking and logistics including ~10,000 motor carriers and ~800 freight brokers. During his tenure, they went from $500M to $3B in sales. The Greenscreens.ai
Enterra Insights
APRIL 18, 2024
Managing multiple suppliers, transportation networks, and distribution channels across different countries can be overwhelming. 8] Staff, “ Reduced risk, regionalization become supply chain priorities, economics expert says ,” Freight Waves, 22 June 2023. “It is as if the entire world decided to Brexit.”
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Cathy Roberson
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Ocean freight solutions Ocean rates and capacity have been a big concern for all shippers for quite some time. Dollar General’s CEO noted that their updated freight outlook after Q1 assumed that its regular ocean carriers would fulfill only 85% of their contractual commitments.
DAT Solutions
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Allentown, PA, was once a major manufacturing town, but it has emerged more recently as a popular location for warehouses and distribution centers, especially at this time of year. That was consistent with an overall trend during Thanksgiving week, as rates rose on lanes heading towards regional distribution centers near the largest cities.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport.
GlobalTranz
JUNE 11, 2015
As the world is more distributed and players within the supply chain in transportation, manufacturing, and distribution are varied, applying a supplier quality management system in your business may allow you to stay more strategic and collaborative. Left unchecked, Chinese suppliers-like domestic suppliers-may ignore quality.
DAT Solutions
AUGUST 28, 2018
More loads are moving out of Cleveland and Houston, but the big surprise was a surge in volume and rates out of Roanoke, Virginia. That's typically a small market for flatbed freight, but a newly expanded steel mill there appears to be generating more freight, and may be benefiting from tariffs on foreign competition.
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