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The Top 100 Logistics Companies with Seth Clevenger

The Logistics of Logistics

Armada Supply Chain Solutions acquired St. Louis-based freight brokerage Sunset Transportation and lands at No. Clevenger, currently based in Alexandria, Va., is a native of northwest Ohio. He is a 2005 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Robinson Worldwide holds onto its No. 1 ranking by a significant margin.

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Three Ways Center-of-Gravity Studies Lead You Astray

Logility

The center of gravity analysis would suggest a site north and west of Peoria (in a corn field), but the optimum location is just south of St. Logility’s solution uses rapid prototyping technology and market data to give an accurate picture of transit times and costs. We should leverage these for our logistics decision-making.

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Order Fulfillment Upheaval: Understanding the Rapidly Changing Fulfillment Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

Respondent privacy is assured, and only aggregated data will be published. Note: Image chart data from St. Louis Fed and US Census Bureau. Click link below to take the survey. Order Fulfillment Upheaval: Understanding the Rapidly Changing Fulfillment Environment.

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Order Fulfillment Upheaval: Understanding the Rapidly Changing Fulfillment Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

Respondent privacy is assured, and only aggregated data will be published. Note: Image chart data from St. Louis Fed and US Census Bureau. Click link below to take the survey. Order Fulfillment Upheaval: Understanding the Rapidly Changing Fulfillment Environment.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Data: Sea-Intelligence. In late 2021, American Patriot Container Transport LLC asked seven shipyards for bids on four river-going vessels each designed to haul about 1,800 containers between Plaquemines Port near New Orleans to terminals in Memphis and St. million units of 20-foot containers, up 6.6% from 2020 and a 5.4% in the U.K.

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The Ways Getting Creative With Your Supply Chain Will Save You Time and Money

Quantified Freight

Are you a display manufacturer and need to ship out a big roll-out from St. Louis, MO up into several Northeast states? When you want to maximize service, reduce cost, and limit handling — there’s no easy, out of the box answer. Are you sending freight across the country and it isn’t super time sensitive?

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

A good indicator for where trucking is headed is the Industrial Production Index published by the St. Louis Federal Reserve ( [link] ). Determine what part of your spend needs to be committed and how much you are willing to float. Above all stay informed. Informative websites and articles. Load boards e.g. DAT Truckstop.