Why it’s vital to work with a 3PL you trust
Canada. July 2020. It’s morning, and the personnel of a mid-sized Canadian trucking company are logging into workstations, checking their daily schedu...
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Logistics Management | History of Supply Chain | Supply Chain Management | 3PL | Business Intelligence
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Resignations killing your logistics operation? IL2000 can help
Burnout, stress and desire for higher pay all contributed to 2021 seeing the highest rate of supply chain manager resignations since 2016. While the A...
Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Business Intelligence | Just In Time | Rapid Response
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JIT Delivery: How to make it work
JIT: Here are three letters that can strike fear into the heart of even the most seasoned supply chain manager. This jittery little acronym refers to ...
Entrepreneurial Spirit | Logistics History and Speculation | Supply Chain Management | Business Intelligence
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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...
Pricing Strategy | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence
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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...
Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Market Recession | Transportation Models | Logistics History and Speculation | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence
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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...
Logistics Management | Supply Chain | Transportation Models | Business Intelligence
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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...
Logistics Management | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Pricing | Distributor | Business Intelligence
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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...