According to the Urban Dictionary when someone tells you to get real, they want you to get a reality check and to stop behaving as though you're living in a fantasy world. The Pew Research Center said... View More
Good Supply Chain Governance ensures that all necessary resources are in place and that individuals or teams are working on agreed priorities, progressing to agreed time scales, and delivering the required... View More
Tribal knowledge is loosely defined as unwritten know-how that is required to do your job. It is often referred to as knowledge “known” yet undocumented, such as information that has been verbally... View More
Every once in a while, a person comes along in your career that influences your professional life as a mentor, or a colleague, or a friend; in my case, he was all three. His name was Les Sandler, and he... View More
The simple fact is that in today’s longer global supply chains, product moves over greater distances and across more multinational borders than in the more localized supply chains of the past. This... View More
Avoid being surprised! That's the basic rule of negotiation. And as Dizzy Dean, the great Baseball Legend, once said: "If you can do it, it ain't braggin!" Successful negotiation depends on knowing what... View More
Based on Profit Point’s recent Transportation Survey of industry leaders, 90+% of shippers identify cost, service, and finding adequate transportation capacity as their continuing priorities in... View More
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress." was articulated by Anwar el-Sadat. I wonder what his observations... View More
I have observed a fairly disturbing trend: Many organizations are heavily engaged in reengineering or change management efforts that are focused on best practices, benchmarking, balanced scorecards, metrics... View More
Amazon wants to become the next major global 3PL, expanding beyond Fulfillment by Amazon.Amazon recently launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), a new platform opening its freight, warehou
For years, parcel auditing carried an implicit prerequisite: you had to be big enough to justify it. The conventional wisdom among smaller shippers went something like this �
The debate on application programming interfaces (API) vs electronic data interchange (EDI) in logistics influences conversations as parcel carriers and supply chain technology providers expan
The terms of sale used for transactions within the United States have wide spread recognition, however, these terms are not defined in a single source. “F.O.B. Origin” and “F.O.B. Destination”
Amazon wants to become the next major global 3PL, expanding beyond Fulfillment by Amazon.Amazon recently launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), a new platform opening its freight, warehou
For years, parcel auditing carried an implicit prerequisite: you had to be big enough to justify it. The conventional wisdom among smaller shippers went something like this �
The debate on application programming interfaces (API) vs electronic data interchange (EDI) in logistics influences conversations as parcel carriers and supply chain technology providers expan
The terms of sale used for transactions within the United States have wide spread recognition, however, these terms are not defined in a single source. “F.O.B. Origin” and “F.O.B. Destination”
