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Mexico Transportation Risk with Mark Vickers

The Logistics of Logistics

Mark Vickers and Joe Lynch discuss Mexico transportation risk. About Mark Vickers Mark Vickers is a leading expert in domestic and cross border transportation risk management and insurance. While at TQL, Mark developed a passion to optimize cross border transportation. During his tenure, they went from $500M to $3B in sales.

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CONA Services Embraces Supply Chain AI

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2009, The Coca-Cola Company unveiled its 2020 Vision and Roadmap for Winning Together. The demand, supply, transportation, and warehousing plans are created on the Blue Yonder platform. Daily transportation and warehouse plans are developed that go down to the level of what will be picked, packed, and shipped.

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The Revenue Engine with Kara Smith Brown

The Logistics of Logistics

Her successful corporate career started at Echo Global Logistics where she played a key role in its ascent to a market leader and celebrated IPO in 2009. In 2017 Kara leveraged her prior corporate experience to launch LeadCoverage, a strategy consultancy addressing all elements of the B2B sales conversion cycle for supply chain companies.

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Scaling a FreightTech Business with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer off Princeton TMX , a SaaS-based transportation management system (TMS). About Mark McEntire Mark McEntire is the Chief Executive Officer at Princeton TMX, a SaaS-based transportation management system (TMS). Hunt Transport, Inc. In June 2009, he became certified as an APICS CSCP.

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Transportation Industry Braces for a Looming Transportation Capacity Crunch Crisis in 2017

GlobalTranz

Expected Transportation Capacity Issues. The concern and dialog about the transportation capacity issues for our country have bridged the past two decades and beyond. If the many components of logistics and supply chain management do not engage effectively with the transport workforce and manufacturing skills gap of the U.S.,

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Rail 101 with Ian Jefferies

The Logistics of Logistics

From 2009 to 2013, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. In this role, Jefferies provided policy guidance on a host of transportation issues, including railroad economic regulation, rail safety and passenger rail.

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Guest Viewpoint: What’s Driving Freight Costs Higher?

The Logistics of Logistics

The latest Master of Logistics 20 th Annual Study of Transportation and Trends Study reports that in 2011 the highest percent of transportation costs was ground freight at 76.1%, of which US long haul trucking holds a major position at 64.4%. mile in January 2009. The 2009 rates slowly increased to the current 2012 level.