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BR Williams is SmartWay Certified for 18 years

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

The SmartWay Program Since the Great Recession, the freight industry in the United States has experienced significant growth , with over 51 million tons of goods transported daily. However, this growth has also led to rising concerns about the environmental impact of global freight transport. The SmartWay Program is a U.S.

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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

Our aim is to improve companies’ understanding of supply chain risk and resilience and help them contextualize the pandemic’s unique risk profile. A side-by-side matrix Our analysis is captured in the comparison matrix below. Disruption comparison matrix?—?Source: In the matrix, this is referred to as a secondary impact.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Freight Companies Scramble to Reroute Goods in Wake of Harvey (WSJ – sub. MacroPoint can also use this content to provide transportation brokers and shippers with predictive freight capacity to help identify early opportunities for additional freight moves. Finally, in the 3PL realm, C.H.

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From Predictions to Operations: Compelling Supply Chain AI Use Cases

ThroughPut

Optimize delivery routes, improve freight operations, and propose the best shipping methods to you. Supply Chain AI Use Case 7: Risk Management of the Supply Chain Risk is an inevitable part of the business world. Therefore, all businesses integrate risk management as an essential part of their operations.

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

Talking Logistics

I encouraged the audience to ask themselves that question and provided them with this comparison of companies of yesterday versus companies of tomorrow. business relationships to “What’s in it for WE?”. When it comes to addressing the supply chain challenges and opportunities of today and tomorrow, are you still using a dustpan?

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Total Cost of Ownership Procurement Model Failure – What’s Missing?

Supply Chain Game Changer

In my experience Total Cost of Ownership ( TCO or TCOO) models typically include some combination of the following elements: Unit price (Always the first item) Takedown rate performance Payment terms Freight and Logistics terms and transfer of ownership Lead times (order, delivery, replenishment) Other Parameters (eg.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. They are predicting Ocean is going to increase 2-3x from $10,000 to container to over $30,000 per container and that Air freight spot rates and lead times are going to increase 3-4 times.