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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Improve cross-government data sharing and analyze resilience. Maximize the value of the purchase order flow data already in the existing networks. (A

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Redefining Freight Brokerage with Nick Jensen

The Logistics of Logistics

Nick is originally from Nashville, TN but NYC has been his home for the past 8 years. By bringing shippers, carriers, and warehouses together on a connected platform, Loadsmart is helping to solve deep-rooted inefficiencies in transportation. 2022 Freight Data Insights Report. About Loadsmart. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast.

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Do You Want Real-time Visibility? IT is the Enemy

Logistics Viewpoints

RF Guns Generate Massive Amounts of Data. Supply chain managers need real-time data to effectively manage operations. While supply chain software companies offer solutions that come with analytic solutions, the data used for the analytics is usually archived data. Archived data is not real-time.

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Highlights of Kinaxis 2023 Annual Customer Conference

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of supply chain planning and execution orchestration provider Kinaxis’s annual customer conference held both physically in Nashville, Tennessee , and virtually livestreamed. Added capabilities integrated to Kinaxis Rapid Response will now include transportation management, order and returns management.

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LTL in a Post-Yellow World with Curtis Garrett

The Logistics of Logistics

Curtis is the Senior VP of LTL at FreightPlus , a managed transportation provider. About Curtis Garrett Curtis Garrett is the Senior VP of LTL at FreightPlus, a managed transportation provider. began its family business as a negotiation consultancy in response to the deregulation of the transportation industry. The Greenscreens.ai

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

The order is a poor proxy for demand and few supply chains have access to consumption data. Supply chains operate blindly on order data. As a result, the supply chain processes are not aligned to sense and use data based on shifts in consumption. While good news travels quickly in an organization, bad news travels slowly.

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COP21 – Freight and Climate Change

Freightos

This Black Friday Shawn Simms was first in line at Best Buy in Nashville, TN to bag a Thanksgiving bargain – a Toshiba HDTV for $149.99. A quick check showed that shipping the TV from Taiwan to Nashville (ocean & trucking) led to about 6.7 Transportation ’s share of global emissions: 14%. kg of carbon emissions.

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