Events Nodes Strategy 
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
But in today’s world of pandemics, geopolitical shocks, and extreme weather events, efficiency alone is a fragile strategy. Action Plan: Map your supply chain, visualizing key nodes (suppliers, plants, logistics hubs). Calculate TTR and TTS for each node and subtract ( TTR – TTS ).
The Logistics of Logistics
MARCH 13, 2021
Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree. Ron Crabtree.
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Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 8, 2024
Autonomy led to a complex supply chain with shipments that traveled too many miles and required too many touches across the nodes. Simplification and standardization were key to the strategy. Uber Freight procurement events now require that the selected carriers be able to provide visibility to shipment status.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 13, 2022
This is creating the need to shrink the time between identification of a sourcing need and executing on a sourcing event. The new generation Design-to-Source technologies allow for gaps identified during the supply chain design phase to be turned into sourcing events that can be created and executed.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 11, 2023
The post-COVID-19 (if we can claim to be post COVID) “new normal” will continue to be defined by new challenges and more importantly by the ability of the supply chain executives to manage disruption and their ability to power organization strategy and growth. Capabilities you should be looking for to enable decision focus.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 7, 2022
Such opportunities will involve switching modes of transportation, or skipping nodes of the network altogether, while increasing the speed to market and reducing the Cost-to-Serve. Madhav Durbha is the Vice President of Supply Chain Strategy Coupa Software , where his team helps customers and prospects solve various supply chain challenges.
Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
And the goods all ship within five to fifteen days depending on the sale event. “We Their waving strategy assigns orders to the available assets, allowing them to increase output by creating a very smooth flow of work across the entire building. However, to handle the box event surges, it will hire up to 800 temps.
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