With inflation declining, while not at a brisk enough pace, coupled with things like still-high inventory levels, solid job numbers and retail sales growth, and…
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There used to be a time when terms like supply chain, infrastructure, and others related to the logistics-focused worlds we live in would get little,…
The Covid pandemic exposed a grim reality: Most shippers have supply chains that are completely unprepared to deal with catastrophic issues. Source: logistics Mgmt
With 2023 underway, it is time to take a fresh look at where things stand, as they relate to key trends and themes germane to…
When looking at the current state of the economy, specifically with a freight transportation and logistics focus, it seems like, in different ways, that there…
While there is often a lot of talk about things like the need for, or even potential, for more standardized processes, when it comes to…
As the clock ticks towards December 9, the end of the status quo, or “cooling off” period, for the four remaining railroad labor groups yet…
What happens from here remains to be seen, of course. But let’s hope, as Yogi Berra noted, that it is not already getting late too…
The holiday sales forecast numbers are encouraging, with NRF forecasting holiday retail sales for increase 6%-to-8% annually, coming in between $942.6 billion-to-$960.4 billion. In 2021,…
There is, and has been, a fair amount of commentary and data pointing to a recession. The primary reason for that has to do with…
Coming out of the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, trucking industry activity looked more like it did in pre-pandemic times, to be sure.…
A recent report published by Axios came across my desk, with the following headline: “TikTok chases Amazon with plans for U.S. fulfillment centers.” To be…
Source: logistics Mgmt
At a time when diesel gasoline prices have hit, or routinely approached, record-high prices, especially in the last year, it stands to reason that motor…
As the calendar moves closer to the holiday season, so, too, do respective announcements by companies, ringing the bell for seasonal labor help. Source: logistics…
Now that a tentative agreement between United States freight railroad carriers and railroad labor unions was reached earlier this morning, a collective sigh of relief…
Source: logistics Mgmt
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…
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…