DAT Solutions

JULY 12, 2017

But even though van volumes were down, rates went up in Northeast, spurred by retail trade and consumer goods moving into place for Amazon’s Prime Day sales. The biggest rate increases last week were in Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Allentown, PA. Chicago to Buffalo gained 18¢ to $2.84/mile. FALLING LANES.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

The collapse of a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will cause “major disruption” in the region just as the summer travel season begins, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. Su is trying to cool off the two sides as employers grow increasingly frustrated with dockworkers disrupting operations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

The sad part is that most of these customers believed that they were doing the right thing by deploying forecasting technology, but did not know how to measure/determine a good plan. With consumer goods companies increasing item complexity on the item master by 30-40%, this is a never-ending cycle. We expect it to sell-out.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. I live in city-center Philadelphia. I thought back to the evolution of the EPC codes and bar codes in the consumer goods industry two decades ago, and I remember the work of Danny Wegman of Wegman’s Supermarkets, Sandy Douglas of Coca-Cola and Tim Smucker of The J.M

Pharmaceutical 150

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It is a beautiful fall day in Philadelphia. As a frequent contributor of supply chain content to the industry, Lora writes by-line monthly columns for SCM Quarterly, Consumer Goods Technology, Supply Chain Movement and Supply Chain Brain. It is always fun to write great research.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

MARCH 3, 2016

I love a good comeback story. Being from Philadelphia originally, I’m certainly a sucker for Rocky (see the movie Creed , by the way) – the quintessential comeback movie. I was reading an article on the turnaround of Hostess.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Feeling very green, I stumbled through the airport and found my way to my seat on the plane from Brussels to Philadelphia. <The As a frequent contributor of supply chain content to the industry, Lora writes by-line monthly columns for SCM Quarterly, Consumer Goods Technology, Supply Chain Movement and Supply Chain Brain.

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