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A Trillion Dollars in Freight Transactions with Ken Adamo

The Logistics of Logistics

Trusted by over 1,400 shippers—including 13 of the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 and 78 Fortune 500 companies—DAT iQ delivers real-time insights, benchmarking, and forecasting tools that optimize operations, mitigate risk, and improve profitability for supply chain shippers.

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Supply Chain & Logistic News (August 19th – 23rd) 

Logistics Viewpoints

The vehicle deployments are expected to lower emissions by 7,052 metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, equivalent to 1,533 passenger cars removed from the road. I thought this was a very topical introduction to this week’s Supply Chain and logistics news Canadian Railroad Work Stoppage Threatens U.S

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. I jeopardized the release date of the book by taking an extra three months to finish the Supply Chain Index work. He is trying to figure out the answer to these questions: What defines supply chain excellence? Who has done it best?

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Because switching from JIT to JIC is at best only a tool to address short-term problems and risk. Why tell this story?

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CPKC system cutover triggers service woes in some former KCS locations

Freight Waves

The Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger has gone smoothly over the past two years — until a long-planned computer system cutover last month in former Kansas City Southern territory in the U.S. The number of cars online is a key congestion metric. Chicago, Il. —

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Vietnam Inks Deals to Buy $3 Billion U.S. Products Before Talks

Supply Chain Brain

Products Before Talks Photo: iStock/Rat0007 June 7, 2025 Bloomberg RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Regulation & Compliance Apparel High-Tech/Electronics Related Articles CP Rail Agrees to Buy Kansas City Southern for $25 Billion Sartorius to Buy French Biotech Polyplus for $2.6

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.