Hybrent

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa (PCI) is one of the largest private, multispecialty physician groups in Iowa, with locations in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo. Grimm is adept at managing his roles and prioritizing his responsibilities, but when it came to supply chain, the time spent was out of balance.

Iowa

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 13, 2022

Most young adults’ lives revolve around their car, using it to get to work or class, saving up for maintenance, or even just selecting a new vehicle that suits their personality. At the same time, you can find some of the lowest car dealer fees in Oregon, New York, Minnesota, and South Dakota. The Best States to Buy a Car in.

New Hampshire

Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. World hunger is a global epidemic. According to the United Nations, one in nine people today—or 815 million globally—lack access to the food necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Waste Reduction

NC State SCRC

MAY 23, 2016

This did not just produce a tax credit for companies producing the biobased product, but anyone who uses the product also enjoyed the tax credit in Minnesota. Iowa has also identified biobased products as a targeted growth sector for the state, and have advocated for a biobased production credit to be established. [1]

Iowa

Turvo

JUNE 8, 2020

Would it decimate the industry or just change it? While the medium in which we buy is changing much of the way products are produced and moved for mass consumption, the processes that go into moving goods from A to B, frustratingly at times, has remained largely unchanged. Hot topics included the rise of driverless trucks.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Zipline Logistics

JULY 28, 2020

Although the primarily Midwest-based retail outlet does not utilize a Walmart-like on-time in-full (OTIF) program , the store still expects its suppliers to meet specific requirements to complete delivery. A ‘drop trailer’ refers to the process of leaving a trailer at a receiving location to be reloaded at another time.

Cost Reduction Strategies

NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa, briefly ran in the 2008 presidential race and was considered by Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate in 2016. The rural unemployment rate has dropped below 6 percent for the first time since 2007, and from 2012-2014, we saw rural child poverty fall by 3 percentage points.”. As head of the U.S.

Study

Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Peak produce shipping season refers to the time period when the largest volume of fruits and vegetables are harvested and subsequently shipped to markets across the US, impacting truck capacity. Seasonal impacts typically hit in late spring and continue through early summer – roughly Memorial Day through July 4 th.

Transportation

Ware2Go

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The school year just started, Halloween is coming, and Thanksgiving plans are still up in the air. “If there’s something you need or want, the risk of not having it in time for the holidays is likely,” said Mark Stanton, general manager of supply chain solutions at PowerFleet. Most people’s hands are full.

Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This means relief for buyers that have dealt with a period of long lead times and inflated pricing. The chip shortage has been one of the hottest topics in 2022. I read an article earlier this week that broke it down pretty succinctly. This is because chipmakers are facing a slump in demand due to the worsening state of the global economy.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

QAD

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Born in 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa, Deming graduated with BS and MS degrees from the University of Wyoming and the University of Colorado respectively, and a PhD from Yale. We’ll take a look back at the original sustainability advocates who, over the years, have become champions in their own right. Early Life and Career Accomplishments.

Sustainability

Zipline Logistics

MAY 12, 2020

Volume is climbing more steadily and is down just 6-7% year-over-year, which is up from last week’s levels. Additionally, according to Freight Waves, “outbound tender rejections have increased week-over-week for the first time since the OTRI peaked at 19.25% on March 28.”. Regional Logistics Market Updates. Midwest Logistics.

Rhode Island

Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a recent interview with Supply Chain Dive , Rick Hernandez, senior vice president of sales and business development at the FRONTdoor Collective, said of the initiative, “ You’ve got entrepreneurs who aren’t just focused on their patch, […] they share notes with each other. It’s not just, ‘I want to run my business.’

Innovation

Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2024

On the positive side, he provides an engineering based background having received a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Iowa. In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we focus on the passing of the CEO leadership baton for Boeing and challenges that are ahead. The announcement from Boeing came last week.

Negotiating Skills

o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ultimately it’s the retailer that will face the wrath of unhappy customers that can only buy two bottles at a time—if there is any left on the shelves at all. Blog written by Charlie Jermyn (Copywriter at o9 Solutions) & Alison Crawford (Director of Global Product Marketing at o9 Solutions). ‘The Champagne is drying up!’

Scenario Planning

Freight Waves

JUNE 9, 2025

Efforts to obtain comment from 10 Roads Express were unsuccessful by publication time. At that time, the Teamsters were said to represent about 300 drivers at the company. For example, one strike lasted just 12 days, against Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) in Ottumwa, Iowa.

Florida

Freight Waves

AUGUST 13, 2025

And now, here comes the EPA with a shiny new “DEF fix” announcement , rolled out with the cameras rolling at the Iowa State Fair. In plain English: if the problem is just the sensor—not the actual emissions system—you might be able to keep rolling instead of getting parked until a dealer swaps it out. On paper, that’s a good thing.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2021

Well, I just read about an Irish start-up that can help. A lot of this effort comes down to more sustainable sourcing, which tends to make environmental-conscious consumers happy. But for consumers, it is often difficult to measure the climate impact of what we eat. It may still be a work in progress, but it is a step in the right direction.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Talking Logistics

JULY 9, 2014

As reported in the New York Times : Factoring in June’s increase and upward revisions for estimated hiring in April and May, employers added an average of 231,000 workers a month in the first half of 2014, the best six-month run since the spring of 2006. percent, the lowest since September 2008.

El Paso

Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

1] This future vision, she reports, can be found “in the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, where Hy-Vee opened a long-awaited concept store in which the innovative grocer showcased numerous firsts.” It stocked 1,000 products, four times the variety of a typical market. ” Change in the Grocery Sector is Accelerating.

Iowa

DAT Solutions

APRIL 6, 2017

More than 25 key performance indicators are tracked, including: DAT Broker Benchmarking goes beyond just gross margin. DAT has launched a new benchmarking service for freight brokers that provides a level of detail found nowhere else in the industry. It shows where you spend your revenue and how that compares with other brokerages.

Benchmarking

DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That's because there are plenty of trucks available in the Twin Cities at this time of year. That's because there are plenty of trucks available in the Twin Cities at this time of year. At other times of the year, we rely on Minnesota agriculture for soybeans, sugar beets, and barley, as well as beef and dairy products.

Minnesota

DAT Solutions

JUNE 14, 2016

This is just one of the many analytical tools that the TMS provides to brokers. Employers have just six months to comply with new overtime rules from the U.S. Fortunately, Hybrid had recently added new payroll software that included a time clock tool. Overtime pay vs. time off. Learn more about DAT Keypoint.

Analytics Software

CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The trucking market experiences many shifts in supply and demand that cycle between times of oversupply and undersupply of capacity. Each cycle brings a unique experience as various factors affect the peaks and valleys of balance, the transition experience, and the time to complete the cycle. Truckload capacity is highly fragmented.

Price Reduction

GTG Technology Group

MARCH 9, 2016

Iowa 80 (Walcott, Iowa). An old-time atmosphere complements its impressive legacy, which traces its roots back to 1891. When you need to do more than just catch up on your sleep, try the Highlands Petro truck stop. Truck stops have come a long way over the years. Dixie Truckers (McClean, Illinois). Entertainment.

Iowa

Tailwind

AUGUST 30, 2017

Driven by a vision, bordering on compulsion, Kinsella goes about creating a beautiful, magnificent baseball diamond out of the cornfields that surround his farmhouse in rural Iowa. I remember watching it on a flight home many years ago after a long business trip and just marveling at it. Just the grey ones though!

Iowa

Freightera

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It’s been just about a year since we moved operations from Southern California. Our CEO, Atif Siddiqi will be speaking today about the Branch origin story and why we’ve based our operations here. In anticipation of that conversation, we wanted to share some of our thoughts on why Minnesota is a home we’re excited about.

Minneapolis

Tailwind

MAY 8, 2017

Once upon a time… it was just you. I’m just as good as the next guy.’. But you knew it was time. She always wished she could just work on something that was closer to home. You remember the moment. You knew how to drive. You knew how to run your own trucking business of one. Why Not Me?”.

Just-in-Time

CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I called upon the CyBIZ Lab at the Iowa State University College of Business to look at the implications for equipment and rates in the coming decades. At the same time, this isn’t an absolute solution; older infrastructure can’t handle the larger freight cars, especially in the northeast. in pulp and paper.

Capacity

Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

We had just graduated from college, and instead of starting work immediately, we decided to spend most of the summer on the road, making our way from the ocean coast in Connecticut to the ocean shore in Oregon. Seven years ago, we lost Pete again, this time forever, when he went to bed with a headache and never woke up.

Oregon