I am short on time this morning, so I’ll just get right to the point: transportation procurement is hot right now. In every conference that I’ve attended so far this year, I’ve spoken to many shippers who have put their freight out to bid over the past 6-9 months. And this trend is confirmed by TMS vendors, consultants, and logistics service providers.
Yesterday, at the Manhattan Associates’ Momentum 2009… Continue reading
Another week, another supply chain conference. This time I’m on my way to Las Vegas to speak at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum 2009 conference. My talk is on “The Hidden Value of Software-as-a-Service,” a topic that never seems to get old. I’ll have more to say about the conference tomorrow.
On the plane ride over, I re-read a couple of classic supply chain articles, including Hau Lee’s “The
In his keynote address at last week’s SAPPHIRE 2009 conference, SAP’s Co-CEO Léo Apotheker talked about how the best-run companies will “see clearly, think clearly, and act clearly”-what SAP is calling “The Clear Enterprise.” He went on to say, “What we are seeing is a growing and lasting need for clarity and insight. Doing business within global networks has brought greater complexity and risk into the game…Executives must have… Continue reading
Last November, during the height of the AIG and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac meltdowns, I wrote a piece questioning whether there was a logistics or transportation company that was too big to fail (see “Too Big to Fail, or Death by a Thousand Cuts“). My opinion at the time (which for the most part I still hold) is that there’s no single logistics company that’s too big to fail. But… Continue reading
About a year and a half ago, I completed a report on the ROI and best practices associated with Voice Recognition solutions for the warehouse. The price for voice systems has been dropping in recent years, as more companies use nonproprietary, mobile computers from companies like Motorola. These computers provide the local computing power for the voice headset, and they enable either voice or scanning driven processes depending on… Continue reading
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