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Logistics Past, Present, and Future

MIT Supply Chain

Robinson (CHR), the world’s largest provider of truckload transportation services, visited MIT CTL recently to give his view of the changing face of logistics. Most people thought of transportation as a part of their overhead.” Another determinant of competitiveness, freight network density, is also a function of scale.

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2013 Third-Party Logistics Study

Supply Chain Movement

Outsourcing accounts for 54% of shippers’ transportation spend and 39% of warehouse operations spend. As found in past Annual 3PL Study surveys, transactional, operational, and repetitive activities such as transportation, warehousing, and freight forwarding tend to be the most frequently outsourced.