Earlier this year at the JDA FOCUS 2015 conference, I led a panel discussion on the third-party logistics (3PL) industry that featured Rick Jordon, SVP Regional Head
The answers to “What is a third-party logistics provider?” and “What is a transportation management system?” don’t fit so neatly in a box any more.
When I worked at Motorola, we regularly used the “5 Whys” technique to help us uncover the root causes of problems. As described in iSixSigma:
Mexico’s rail capabilities have evolved significantly over the past decade, as Carlos Godinez, Intermodal Director, Mexico at Transplace, discussed in a recent episode of Talking Logistics.
Many shippers reach a fork in the road where they have to determine which transportation functions to keep in house and which ones to outsource.
It’s well documented that a lot of the potential savings a transportation management system (TMS) can provide is derived from optimization. Yet many companies still
