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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

February 17, 2022, 12:01 AM EST. 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. Brendan Murray.

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Where to Find Flatbed Loads in the Off-Season

DAT Solutions

Columbus and Cleveland, OH also offered plenty of loads. Rates trended up in Los Angeles, Rock Island, Cleveland and Memphis. Reference rates include fuel surcharges but not accessorial or other fees. It's the beginning of the off-season for flatbeds, so every little surge helps. per mile, down 5¢ from the October average.

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Focusing on Customer Experience

Enterra Insights

”[2] The article to which Mueller refers observes, “Economists have typically lumped experiences in with services, but experiences are a distinct economic offering, as different from services as services are from goods. They were right of course, and today the evidence is everywhere.”[2] ”[3].

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Load Volume and Rates Move in Opposite Directions

DAT Solutions

Reference rates include fuel surcharges but not accessorial or other fees. Rates trended up in Houston, a major flatbed market, as well as secondary markets including Las Vegas, NV; Fort Worth, TX; Cleveland, OH; and Tampa, FL. Reference rates include fuel surcharges but not accessorial or other fees.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

Different terms are used to refer to these zones – but while the terms differ slightly, the concept is similar. For clarity, here’s a quick definition of each term: A free trade zone – or free zone as it is also known – can refer to specific-purpose manufacturing facilities.

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How does Crisp detect retail voids?

crisp

We commonly refer to these as voids: a situation in which a product at a given store (also known as a point of distribution, or POD) should be available for customers to purchase, but isn’t. In a live retail environment, a number of things can happen that keep products from successfully making it onto (and off of) the shelves.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

We pulled in all a colleague out of our Cleveland office “Don” (a near retirement manufacturing expert) for some additional perspective. The result was an extreme bull whip condition amplifying manufacturing demand running plants 3 shifts over time for weeks then literally shutting down the plant for weeks.

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