Here’s what caught our attention this week in the world of supply chain and logistics:
Logistics executives face many transportation-related challenges, both today and in the future: volatile fuel prices, capacity constraints, road congestion, driver shortage, hours-of-service and safety regulations, sustainability initiatives, new taxes and fees (e.g., carbon emissions tax? vehicle miles travelled fee?), and the list goes on. This reality has led many shippers and carriers to focus on ways to improve the productivity of their transportation operations. Some have invested in… Continue reading
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is researching how software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and cloud computing are being used and deployed today and how these technologies will evolve in the future. Because SaaS is so prevalent in the transportation management systems (TMS) and mobile resource management (MRM) markets, I thought it would be worthwhile to dive into NIST’s research and writings on this topic.
My first reaction… Continue reading
What will truckers haul when there’s nothing left to haul?
This question popped into my head yesterday when I heard the news from Amazon that over the past month it has sold 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books it has sold. Simply put, the Internet is a growing transportation mode in some industries.
Of course, not everything is going digital. There is still plenty of stuff to ship around… Continue reading
ARC recently published a strategic report called Asset Performance Management: An IT Perspective (available to ARC clients only). As I read through the report, I started thinking about a distribution center (DC) I recently visited. This 750,000 sq. ft. warehouse, which cost $250 million to build, made extensive use of conveyors and sorters directing jobs to people at computerized workstations or pick-to-light stations. The conveyors moved packages through box… Continue reading
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