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Atlanta freight market outperformed during July 4th

Freight Waves

Tender rejection rates, a metric for gauging how often carriers decline contracted loads, have demonstrated significant fluctuations leading up to July 4th. In addition to Atlanta, the Dallas market has also experienced significant increases in tender rejections, peaking at 10.2% at its peak on July 1.

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Celanese Leads the Pack When it Comes to Agentic AI

Logistics Viewpoints

The Celanese Supply Chain Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a global chemical and specialty materials company with revenues of over $10 billion. The company operates in over 20 countries and has over 12,000 employees. The company has 55 manufacturing sites across the world. Al Syed elaborated.

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How Supply Chain Best Practice Metrics Can Predict the NFL Super Bowl

Kinaxis

So, I decided to use supply chain best practice metrics to predict the Super Bowl participants, and the ultimate winner. This is a simple equation, but yet very effective when used as an end-to-end metric. Some NFL teams have a net value of nearly $3.2B (Dallas Cowboys). I grew up in Pittsburgh, and it is Steelers all day.

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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities

Supply Chain Brain

As part of its partnership with drone company Wing, the retail giant intends to bring drone deliveries to Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta and Charlotte by June of 2026, and will expand existing services in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. This is real drone delivery at scale,” said Wing CEO Adam Woodworth.

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Looking Beyond Red Arrows

Supply Chain Shaman

It is hard work to maintain the status quo in metrics performance. A balanced portfolio of metrics delivers the greatest value. Companies balance supply chain metrics better in good times than bad. Reader’s note, the way to reach this chart is to first identify the average value for the metric for the period of 2010-2016.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

On my flight to Dallas, I finally got a chance to watch a movie I had been excited to see since it was announced – The Iron Claw. The solar panels will reduce the building’s carbon footprint by approximately 4,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. My write-up gets into all of the great things I saw while at the show.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Dallas Forth Worth-headquartered airline registered a 6.7 percent year-on-year decline in cargo ton miles to 1.8bn, although this metric increased by 9.5 In the fourth quarter, United saw its revenues decline by the lesser amount of 14.8 percent, at American there was a 24.2% fall and at Delta the Q4 decline was 24 percent.