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What to Expect in 2019: MIT Business Experts Weigh In

Material Handling and Logistics

One of the biggest sources of financial uncertainty in 2019 will be international tariff policy and its impact on product demand. The Sloan School of Management at MIT, gathered together a group of experts for their take on what 2019 will look like. Human Capital Management. Technology will continue to transform how we work.

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Selling in Tough Times with Nick Strober and Melanie Flores

The Logistics of Logistics

Nick is a Senior Account Executive and Team Leader at Lean Solutions Group , and Melanie is the Director of Solutions Consulting at Symtrain. Nick Strober is a Senior Account Executive at Lean Solutions Group , where he is known as a jack of all trades. About Lean Solutions Group. Lean Solutions Group LinkedIn.

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The Port of Virginia with Stephen Edwards

The Logistics of Logistics

In 2019, CNBC ranked Virginia as the #1 state for business, and The Port of Virginia plays a key role in Virginia’s ability to serve those businesses. Previous industry experience includes president and CEO of Port America Group and president and CEO of P&O Ports North America. About Stephen Edwards. Stephen’s LinkedIn.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

Of course, a high stock price enriches those people who already own shares, and makes options and stock grants more valuable, but they didn’t get into that either. Then we were video-linked to other groups in identical sessions, perhaps in some effort to show how we were all in this together.

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Contract Logistics: What’s the Outlook for 2019?

Now, That's Logistics

Of course, keeping up with those order volumes on the manufacturing side isn’t easy. Both groups are watching the trade wars and global tariff situation closely and trying to minimize the negative financial impacts associated with those issues. That trend could translate into more growth for the contract logistics field in 2019.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

The most famous shortage, of course, was the toilet paper shortage, which was really more about a shift in usage and panic buying than production. Between 2016 and 2019, Amazon converted around 25 shopping malls into distribution centers. The previous record was set in August 2019 with 233,110 TEUs. That’s all for this week.