Archive for Private Fleet
My colleagues at ARC recently published a report (available to ARC clients only) on electric vehicle technologies. It struck me that some of the information in it would be interesting to truck fleet owners.
According to the ARC report, there are four different types of e-vehicles: hybrid electric vehicle (HEV); plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV); pure electric vehicle (PEV); and fuel cell electric car.
Currently, the only realistic… Continue reading
Visualizing Next Generation Routing
· CommentsThe New England Roundtable of CSCMP recently organized a tour of Walgreens’ Northeast Distribution Center (DC). What an amazing facility! Because I live in a Boston suburb and the DC is in Connecticut, I used MapQuest to get turn-by-turn directions and it told me that the trip would take just under 2 hours.
I made it to the tour on time, but it involved significant speeding and stress… Continue reading
Last night, Descartes announced its acquisition of Routing International, a privately-held provider of route planning solutions based in Belgium. Descartes has a long history in the route planning market, and several years ago it acquired Cube Route, a software-as-a-service vendor in this space. So, why acquire another related company?
I spoke this morning to Chris Jones, EVP Solutions and Service at Descartes, to get more details. Here… Continue reading
The CEO and VP of Marketing of Airclic, a software-as-a-service provider of Mobile Resource Management (MRM) solutions, came in to brief us recently. One of the stories that caught my attention was how one of its customers, a waste collection company, uses the company’s solution.
The problem the customer was experiencing was that its drivers would go to an industrial dumpster, empty it, and move on with their… Continue reading
I recently wrote about some of the thinking and core concepts behind achieving the lowest supply chain costs in a Direct Store Delivery (DSD) supply chain (see “Direct Store Deliveries and Lowest Total Supply Chain Costs”). Today, I will highlight how Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has actually put these concepts into practice. I’d like to thank Mike Jacks, Sr. Manager for… Continue reading
This Week in Logistics News (Mar 8-12, 2010)
· CommentsIt was another busy week in the world of supply chain and logistics. Here’s our short list of what caught our attention this week:
- Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Rose 0.4% in January from December
- Retail Container Traffic to be Up 13 Percent in March
- Schneider National Deploys Next Generation In-Cab Technology
- Descartes Reports Fiscal 2010 Fourth Quarter and Year End
The traditional definition of a private fleet is a fleet of vehicles owned by a company to conduct business. When supply chain folks hear the term they tend to think of a fleet of large trucks with trailers hauling goods from the manufacturer’s distribution center (DC) to the retailer’s DC. But other types of fleets exist as well: smaller trucks used to install new products for project-based supply chains; maintenance vans… Continue reading
The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Private Fleet
· CommentsThe focus for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) has been passenger cars, specifically cars used for commuting. General Motors, for example, plans to come out with the Chevy Volt in 2011. The idea is that you plug in the car overnight and then you can drive it for up to 40 miles. After that, the Volt kicks over to a gasoline-powered generator that can extend the range for hundreds… Continue reading
