With another negative United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reading, for the second quarter, at -0.9, following the first quarter’s -1.6 reading, it begs the…
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The cover of the July edition of LM, for the annual State of Logistics edition, featured the headline “Out of Sync.” And, to be honest,…
For the past nine months, I have been doing a lot of webcasts and presentations talking to C-Level executives about their supply chain issues. When…
Concerns over the state of the economy are front and center these days, to be sure. From a supply chain perspective, that tale is not…
Some of the biggest brand names across several verticals again received accolades from research firm Gartner Inc., in being named to its annual Global Supply…
Not long after President Biden stated that the White House is discussing dropping tariffs levied against China by his predecessor Donald Trump, the Washington, D.C.-based…
One issue, which prior to the pandemic was high on many stakeholders’ list, is tariffs, something that has since been ostensibly left to the wayside.…
As this situation moves on, there continue to be more questions than answers, to be sure. There is never a really opportune time for a…
One could make the case that the plan President Biden announced today to put one million additional barrels, from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR),…
Now that the United States Senate followed the House’s lead in signing off on the Postal Reform Act legislation, which is focused on augmenting the…
While there is more than a healthy share of uncertainty in logistics and the supply chain, one thing that remains certain, is the ongoing aggressive…
Given the onus on supply chain and logistics, at both a national and global level, it is not all too surprising that the State of…
Expecting the unexpected has become a core part of the logistics and supply chain playbook in recent years. It is fair to say that, at…
While the pandemic has brought about some major changes in how we view and approach certain things, there are other things that we were all…
As for the supply chain and logistics hurdles, there are, or remain, more than a few, in the form of—and in no particular order—the following:…
While the rush of holiday gifts appears to have made it to their final destinations to end 2021 through myriad delivery networks, amid some unique…
2021 has exposed a sobering fact: several companies have taken their supply chains for granted. Truth be told, they have mediocre supply chains that are…
IDC’s analysis of the need for improved forecasting pulls no punches, in explaining that manufacturers have been running supply chains for centuries, and, for nearly…
While things are far from certain in freight transportation, supply chain, and logistics these days, a new report recently issued by the American Trucking Associations…
It is crazy, in a way to see that the calendar is telling us we are in the first week of December, the homestretch of…