By Derek Browning, Director of Operations – Consulting It’s consumed our headlines the last two years—supply chain issues are running rampant across industries with chaos at ports, distribution centers, and along shipping routes. Manufacturing delays, raw material shortages and long-term effects of the bullwhip effect are contributing to the challenges, and now softening demand curves…
Category: Supply Chain Consulting
Globalization, capacity constraints and the COVID-19 pandemic are just a few of the things disrupting transportation and logistics processes today. Shippers in every industry are looking for innovative ways such as lean thinking to improve their transportation management strategy and execution. With that in mind, Transplace recently hosted a webinar featuring Ben Cubitt, SVP of…
*The below is an excerpt of an article first published in Talking Logistics. One of the key lessons learned from 2020 is that companies can no longer afford to stand on the sidelines when it comes to investing in technology and digital transformation. This is not only true for manufacturers and retailers, but for logistics…
Many companies have realized the importance of data management to enable strategic decision-making and the best possible standards of service. But data alone serves little purpose without the right actionable intelligence and analysis. If properly maintained, data can provide the pivotal information necessary to truly optimize the end-to end supply chain within a meaningful timeframe,…
How should leading-edge companies view transportation? Today, leading-edge companies are transforming their process for buying and managing freight capacity from a tactical, frequently siloed, rate-shopping exercise to a holistic, multi-modal, enterprise-wide optimization of their transportation network. This creates an ecosystem where transportation becomes a truly strategic weapon and sustainable competitive advantage. Unfortunately, very few organizations…