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
The 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
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