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How Will You Compete with Amazon with Charley Dehoney

The Logistics of Logistics

FitzMark is a leading Indianapolis-based transportation and logistics provider. Fitzmark has warehousing locations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and Indianapolis. A few of those advantages include: A worldview that technology can transform an industry and that great tech companies can and should scale very rapidly.

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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

The shortage of workers is causing companies to look at non-traditional sources, including individual with a criminal record. facility at an Indianapolis, Ind., The shortage of workers has hit the trucking and logistics industry particularly hard. Those skills led him to a part-time job at a FedEx Corp.

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Summer freight: Calm before the storm?

DAT Solutions

DAT load boards provide the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 270 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $57 billion in real transactions. Dallas to Denver lost 25¢ at $2.59/mile.

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Guest Post from Tim Barnes: Navigating Trump’s 35% import tax, and how US companies can utilize “Parallel Manufacturing” to grow globally

NC State SCRC

This could significantly change the design of current production supply chains for major industrials and pharmaceutical companies. The foundation for this assumption is based on commentary from Trump advisors, and the fact that most raw materials used in US manufacturing now, are sourced internationally, and assembled in the US.