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 ...
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Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Business Intelligence | Just In Time | Rapid Response
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Logistics Management | Supply Chain | Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs
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Freight classification for LTL
What you should know about freight classification and why it’s important. If LTL shipping is even a small part of your supply chain, you’re probably a...
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...
Logistics Management | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs
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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...
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 | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Rapid Response
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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...
Logistics Management | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Market Recession | Retail | History of Supply Chain | Logistics History and Speculation | Silicon Chip Shortage | Supply Chain Management
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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...
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 | Supply Chain Management | Consumer Goods | Procurement
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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...
Logistics Management | Inventory | Supply Chain Management | Consumer Goods | Consumer Brands | CPG
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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...
Logistics Management | Supply Chain | Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Automotive
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Lifting the automotive aftermarket out of crisis
The North American automotive aftermarket industry may be facing the most daunting range of ongoing supply chain and distribution challenges to date, ...
Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | Consumer Goods | On-Time Delivery | Consumer Demand | Freight Costs
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The cosmetics industry and the supply chain at its foundation
The cosmetic and personal care industries are growing at a breakneck pace.With global sales of $483 billion in 2020 and an annual growth rate of 4.75%...