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This Week in Logistics News (September 5-9, 2016)

Talking Logistics

The kids are back at school, we have air conditioning again, and North Korea tested a nuclear bomb yesterday. “If Moving on to software news, Oracle announced that it is acquiring LogFire, a provider of cloud-based warehouse management applications. Everything is back to normal. I’m rooting for love.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

If they actually follow through on their promise and oil prices continue to rise next year, how will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in response? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Of course, what happens in the U.S.