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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. 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.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. 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.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. Also insufficient pay to attract truckers, longshoremen, etc.

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Supply Chain Basics with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

Jason Miller (PhD The Ohio State University) is a tenured Associate Professor of Logistics and the John D. The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. Transportation. About Jason Miller. and Dortha J.

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Logistics and Supply Chain – 1940 to 2040 with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

Jason Miller (PhD The Ohio State University) is a tenured Associate Professor of Logistics and the John D. The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. About Jason Miller. and Dortha J.

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

This has been especially the case over the last two plus years with the onset of the global-wide Covid-19 pandemic and with consequent and unprecedented supply and transportation network disruptions. The company was eventually forced to transport its bikes and equipment by more expensive air freight to avoid congested U.S.

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Added In-Transit Inventory Exposures Add to Implications of Inbound Cost Inflation for Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

We indicated that the implications of unprecedented, elevated levels of inflation levels will vary by specific industry, but taken as a whole, they present a number of complex product management, procurement and supply chain planning challenges that will need to be tackled. The report observes that in December 2021, U.S.