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What’s Next for The Freight Market with Chris Pickett

The Logistics of Logistics

Chris is the Chief Operating Officer at Flock Freight , a technology company that is on a mission to solve the US trucking industry’s wasted capacity problem. Joe Lynch and Chris Pickett discuss what’s next for the freight market. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.Eng.

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Amazon and the Shift to AI-Driven Supply Chain Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Limitations of Traditional Supply Chain Planning Traditional supply chain planning relies on retrospective analysis. A 2023 McKinsey study found that companies relying on reactive supply chain management lose up to 10% of annual revenue due to inefficiencies and missed opportunities.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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Breaking Data Silos: How Centralized Data Warehouse Transforms Multi-Branch Operations

WorkWave

Delayed decision-making: Teams waste time manually gathering and cleaning data. Industry Examples of Breaking Data Silos Cleaning Industry A university case study revealed that a cleaning service provider struggled with inconsistent scheduling and supply tracking across multiple locations.

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The Power of Decile Data: Why It’s a Game-Changer for the Green Industry

WorkWave

Decile data analysis involves dividing a dataset into ten ranked segments called deciles, identifying someone’s likelihood to respond to marketing campaigns or find value from the services your company provides. To effectively implement decile data analysis, the first step is to gather accurate and comprehensive data.

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6 Critical Success Factors in Distribution Network Design

Logistics Bureau

Quality and Detail of Data and its Analysis In some of our earlier posts, weve stressed the importance of simplicity in distribution network design , and we will return to that topic later in this article. It’s not a short list, so we’ll set it down here as a summary to help you with plans for analysis.

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9 Steps to Establish the Lean Supply Chain: A System of Interconnected & Interdependent Partners

GlobalTranz

Eliminate All Waste in the Supply Chain So That Only Value Remains. In the supply chain, the seven wastes translate to: o System complexity—additional, unnecessary, steps and confusing processes. In the supply chain, the seven wastes translate to: o System complexity—additional, unnecessary, steps and confusing processes.