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Touchless Black Friday

Enterra Insights

But the truth is that Black Friday owes its name to the Philadelphia Police Department, which did not have profitability in mind.”[1] In the middle years of the twentieth century, the scene was often particularly bad in Philadelphia, where the annual Army-Navy football game was regularly played on the weekend after Thanksgiving.

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Is Workforce Planning the Weakest Link in Your Supply Chain Transformation Journey?

Talking Logistics

While many companies have invested significant time and money over the years to improve their demand, supply, and manufacturing planning capabilities, they have underinvested in workforce planning and optimization, and they’re now starting to feel the consequences.

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Rates and Demand Are Still High for Refrigerated Freight

DAT Solutions

Grand Rapids to Philadelphia dropped 58¢ to $3.52/mile. mile, and it’s continuing on a downward trend this week. As we were saying before, the going rate for reefer loads heading from Grand Rapids to Philadelphia was way down last week. Florida rates continued to slide: Miami to Atlanta dropped 40¢ to $1.29/mile,

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Severe weather causes freight rates to slip

DAT Solutions

VAN TRENDS. REEFER TRENDS. Like van, reefer trends have not turned upward yet. Philadelphia to Miami fell 22¢ to $1.96/mi. The van load-to-truck ratio declined last week to 1.6 loads per truck. National Average Freight Rates. mile, down 2¢ Reefer: $2.19/mile, mile, down 2¢ Flatbed: $2.34/mile,

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Congratulating the Supply Chains to Admire Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

The orbit charts, once you get used to them, are an effective way to measure trends. For more on this, please attend the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4th-7th in Philadelphia. So, the methodology, while not perfect, is helpful to understand which practices translate to value.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2018

Talking Logistics

The Trends Shaping Supply Chain and Logistics: Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2017. CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (2017: September, Philadelphia). LogiChem US 2018 , November 12-13, Philadelphia, PA. (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference). BluJay Solutions: SOAR 2018 , May 14-17, Orlando, FL.

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The Transportation Revolution: Takeaways from CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference

Talking Logistics

Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference in Philadelphia. Mark Chrencik, Director of Operations at CLX Logistics (a Talking Logistics sponsor), kicked off the conference with a market update where he covered various trends in the industry, including fuel prices and linehaul rates.