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Transportation in the Americas: A Cross-Country Comparison

MIT Supply Chain

Truck transportation comprises 75% of all freight in Latin America. Mendonça, Villena, and Ruiz interviewed professionals from three distinct areas of the freight world: trade associations, multinational companies, and carriers?—?including including owner-operators.

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E-Commerce Disrupts Freight Seasons, Boosts Spot Market Volume

DAT Solutions

At the second annual DAT User Conference, Montague presented a summary of his research on "Retail and E-tail, and You" to more than 165 of the company’s customers. One result has been a transformation of seasonal freight trends, and transportation spending, especially in the fourth quarter of each year.

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Shoveling Snow with a Dustpan (Takeaways from BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

As I prepared my keynote presentation for the BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 conference , I recalled this experience and saw it as a good metaphor for the difficulties many companies are having today responding effectively to the blizzard of supply chain management.

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Best Online Freight Marketplace by Transport News INTL

Freightera

Transport News INTL has just selected Freightera as “Best Online Freight Marketplace – North America” in their Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards 2017! By comparison North America’s largest LTL carrier by revenue, FedEx Freight, has about 400 million lanes.

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Conquering the world with shoes

Cathy Roberson

Sifford told participants at last week’s Jefferies 2021 Virtual Consumer Conference that the company reached out to key vendors and assured them that Shoe Carnival would continue paying invoices during the pandemic. The majority of the imports are by way of ocean freight. “We also place our orders and our backups early.”

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The Transportation Industry Report: Winter 2018-2019

Freight Plus

The report’s author, Donald Broughton, noted that this was “still very impressive given the tougher comparison.”. Costello explained his outlook for 2019 in a recent conference call hosted by investment firm Stifel earlier this year. Read our article on smart ways to save on freight in 2019. According to a report by.

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Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process

GlobalTranz

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. We have talked a great deal about the evaulation of suppliers on our blog and this post continues that great tradition.