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Transportation vs Logistics with Marty Wadle

The Logistics of Logistics

Marty has worked with Ruan for over 25 years and has held a series of positions with increasing responsibility within sales, supply chain solutions, quality, and logistics. Marty earned a Bachelor degree in Transportation and Logistics from the College of Business at Iowa State University. About Ruan Transportation.

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Drivers in the Spotlight: 4 Reasons for Their Growing Influence on Supply Chain Management

TMC

The changing competitive landscape in trucking is focusing more attention on the role of drivers in the management of supply chains. The truck driver element of supply chains is now coming under more scrutiny for a number of reasons. Researchers at Iowa State University studied this phenomenon using data provided by C.H.

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Explaining the Bottleneck: The Champagne Shortage of 2021

o9 Solutions

Champagne has supply chain challenges, too. The supply shortage is only one part of the Champagne industry’s problem, however. The winemakers care about the quality of their wine, while the other parts of the supply chain care about inventory, so solving this disconnect and aligning objectives is essential.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

Nine questions about the topics on the supply chain agenda of a supply chain professional. By Helen Armstong (Supply Chain Movement). It consolidated Cargill’s global animal feed production and strengthened its internal supply chain capacity for food production and processing.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 25 – October 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

Costco is renting 3 container ships and ‘several thousand containers’ Amazon ends free Prime delivery for Whole Foods deliveries. Hy-Vee brings inventory robots to 5 stores to plan orders, reduce stockouts. The supply chain capacity crunch has caused prices to rise for a number of goods.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Merchants including Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lowe’s, and Walmart say the rising stocks signal a recovery from last year’s shortages driven by supply-chain disruptions and put them in a strong position to take advantage of consumer demand this holiday shopping period. CVS has equipped roughly 8,000 of its more than 9,000 U.S.

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Holiday shopping has started early amid fears over shipping delays

Ware2Go

Disruptions to global supply chains by COVID, storms and shortages have led to worries about empty shelves. The school year just started, Halloween is coming, and Thanksgiving plans are still up in the air. Seventy-three cargo ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Saturday, a record.