No one deliberately picks the wrong carrier for a shipment… often we are forced into it because the preferred carrier doesn’t have the available equipment to cover the spike in demand or there has been insufficient lead-time provided. The impact of this can be alarming: There is a solution: The Transportation Planning suite created by […]
Transportation Planning provides an incredible competitive edge. To quote a VP at a Fortune 50 consumer goods manufacturer: “We deploy, at premium cost, product that may not be needed, from sites that may struggle to ship it, to sites that may not be able to receive it.” It’s well known that deployment volumes (from Plants to DCs) […]
Many smaller suppliers agreed to have Walmart handle their freight (to Walmart DCs and stores, of course). What I hear is that Walmart is not a totally reliable provider of transportation and some gripe that they are paying fines for this unreliable performance. Now, the plot thickens. New charges include: A collect pickup fee […]
Diesel prices are holding their own— despite refineries coming on line. What gives? […]