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Cold Chain Basics with Andy Bahr

The Logistics of Logistics

Andy is the Founder and CEO of Bahr Transportation , a FTL brokerage, focused primarily on serving the food & beverage industry, in the USA & Canada. Andy Bahr is the Founder and President of Bahr Transportation , a FTL brokerage focused primarily on serving the food & beverage industry, in refrigerated freight.

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A Truth About Global Transportation: It Happens Locally

Talking Logistics

As shippers of all sizes expand their global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution operations, they have to navigate the complexities involved with global transportation management. But there’s a truth about global transportation that applies to all companies, regardless of how they became global: transportation happens locally.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Think strategically about transportation spend.

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON, headquartered in Westlake Ohio, has about 1000 employees. The executive meeting will generate lean six sigma projects where analysts are tasked with going out and discovering more granular costs. The company has 11 production facilities across North America and China. These plants, in turn, produce roughly 2000 products.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Think strategically about transportation spend.

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Cardinal Health Invests in Visibility to Improve Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. Across their inbound and outbound supply chains the goods are transported by air, ocean, rail, truckload, less-than-truckload, parcel, and even couriers. The visibility the FourKites solution can provide is dependent on the signals it gets from transportation assets.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 3-7, 2017)

Talking Logistics

It didn’t take long for the recently rebranded BluJay Solutions to make its first acquisition: Blackbay , “a leading provider of mobility-enabled solutions for the transport and logistics industry.” Meanwhile, Cleveland.com reports that Peloton will roll out platooning on the Ohio Turnpike this year.