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Christmas and the Poinsettia Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Crockett explains, “Behind the beautiful, blood-red bracts of the poinsettia, there’s a story rife with geopolitics, patent wars, a dethroned monopoly, and complex supply chains.” Crockett explains, “The plant would only last 2-3 days — and its weak disposition meant that it couldn’t readily be transported en masse.

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Innovation has Never Been More Complex; or Rewarding

Oracle SCM

Let’s face it: even with patent protection, products are largely becoming commoditized. Let’s face it: even with patent protection, products are largely becoming commoditized. In the past, innovative businesses had it easy. The pace of change was much slower and first mover advantage was, as a result, more important. Not so today.

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The Parallel Systems Story with Matt Soule

The Logistics of Logistics

The company’s zero-emissions railcars join together to form “platoons” to reduce energy consumption and can split off to multiple destinations while en route. Parallel is developing a new patent-pending vehicle architecture to increase utilization of today’s rail network. trucking industry to rail.

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Compete in the Transportation Industry with Updated TMS Tools

Tailwind

EZCheck-In is a patent-pending app-less tool that makes it easy for drivers to submit shipment events – such as arrived, at gate, loaded and departed – at each stop and to report their location while en route to pick-up or delivery. The events are GPS-confirmed so you get trusted visibility.

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The 22 Biggest Beer Trends, According to Experts

Unleashed

“Bigger lagers though, or what people call IPL (India Pale Lager) are increasingly popular and we’ll see more of these – plus ‘champagne-yeast’ lagers like Urbanaut’s Hacienda Disco Beer and Garage Project’s Hops en Pointe. ‘Champagne-yeast’ lagers like Urbanaut’s Hacienda Disco Beer are trending.

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The History of the Semi Truck

Freight Plus

During this period of extreme success, the company would hold over 150 military patents. Aside from electricity, it could be argued the no greater 19th century invention shaped shipping in the United States of America more than the semi truck. Fruehauf trailers would eventually see action in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.