Integrated Logistics Blog (9)

Entrepreneurial Spirit | Logistics History and Speculation | Supply Chain Management | Business Intelligence

Logistics on Mars

It is the year 2055. It has been a tempestuous few decades for the human species. Supply chains have waxed and waned. Artificial intelligence has brea...

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Logistics Management | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs

Capacity: Why is it so flingin’ flangin’ hard to get right?

Imagine that you need to ship an item with a carrier. You run the math and estimate a shipping cost of $1000. A week later, the carrier comes back and...

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Pricing Strategy | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence

Adam and Eve (& Stan): Why supply chain software can’t beat expertise

Way back in the 1960s the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) started experimenting with a weird concept. Their idea was to see if co...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Rapid Response

From proactive to rapid response

Since we started operation as a 3PL nearly a quarter of a century ago, IL2000 has invested considerable time and energy into fixing supply chain issue...

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Logistics Management | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Market Recession | Retail | History of Supply Chain | Logistics History and Speculation | Silicon Chip Shortage | Supply Chain Management

A tale of empty shelf panic, pandemics, and life or death supply chains

A man stumbles out of a dense rainforest into a village clearing. He sways on his feet, sinking to his knees as another bout of trembling crashes over...

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Logistics Management | Case Studies | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Distributor | History of Supply Chain | Logistics History and Speculation | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs

When big things come in big packages

New York City Harbor. 1885. June 17th … about 6:30 pm. With your time machine safely concealed in an alley under an old paint-splattered tarp, you sit...

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Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Market Recession | Transportation Models | Logistics History and Speculation | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence

Us, Them ... and the Great Unknown

This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new set of rules to standardize how publicly traded companies disclose climate-rela...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain | Transportation Models | Business Intelligence

You don’t know what you don’t know … what?

In the darkest days of World War II, the US Naval Air-force faced a serious problem. Airpower had come to play a major role in the conflict. Fighter a...

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Logistics Management | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Pricing | Distributor | Business Intelligence

How we help businesses ship difficult products

Construction materials that are hard to move and require special handling pose unique supply chain challenges. First, you have training to contend wit...

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Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Market Recession | Dropshipping | Warehousing

The “Whole Package” isn’t a package

The last few years have changed supply chains everywhere. Businesses large and small are facing this make or break moment where they have to find new ...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain | Supply Chain Management | Consumer Goods | Procurement

The handshake between Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Shortage, disruption, shock – three modifiers of today’s supply chain. Only a company with crafty purchasing and secure supply chain management will f...

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Logistics Management | Inventory | Supply Chain Management | Consumer Goods | Consumer Brands | CPG

From top shelf to shopping basket

Consumer packaged goods (CPG)— you know, all those goods that consumers use up and replace frequently— food, beverages, clothes, personal hygiene, cos...

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