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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 11.5-11.9

Freight Plus

“Instead of having conversations about what the detention rates are going to be, I’d rather focus on not having detention at all,” Rob Roberson, director of logistics at steelmaker Nucor, said at the JOC Inland Distribution Conference. We’ve used our transportation management system to make load times a critical metric for us.”.

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More on The Future of Delivery (Takeaways from MercuryGate Velocity 2017 User Conference)

Talking Logistics

Many transportation and logistics software companies were launched in the late 1990s and early 2000s, during the height of the dotcom era, but very few of them survive today — they either went bankrupt or were acquired by others. The results are similar to how shippers and logistics service providers view their relationships.