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Brokers Have Until Feb 6th to Contact the FMCSA & Influence Proposed Carrier Liability Insurance Increase

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The frustrating feeling, that government regulators aren’t listening to you, is a common one within the freight industry. The higher the minimums go, the more difficult it may be for small and medium sized carriers to survive, especially since the industry was already hit hard by last year’s freight broker bond increase.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George ( Link ). From an inefficient game of Tetris to global industries that move $19 trillion dollars of goods annually, Malcom McLean changed shipping. Got some suggestions?

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years, which is hard to believe sometimes. One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). How can I summarize the many sessions and customer case studies I attended in a short blog post?

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Some reading suggestions, while you wait in the airport!

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Dubner (William Morrow, 2006) Publisher’s Blurb: “Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, [the authors] show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives — how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.” Levitt and Stephen J.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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“The dire predictions that robots are going to take our jobs are overstated,” said Susan Lund, co-author of the study for McKinsey, adding “There will be enough jobs for everyone in most sectors.” Managing Director, AD Supply Chain Group Pty Ltd. ” I wish I was that optimistic.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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. Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Managing Director, AD Supply Chain Group Pty Ltd. Carsten Baumann.

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Cracking under sanctions

Automotive Logistics

The re-imposition of sanctions by the US on Iran has dealt a hammer blow to the country’s emerging automotive industry. Renault’s operation in the country, Renault Pars, has remained separate to the Renault Group ever since. There is no suggestion, however, that Iran’s automotive industry will collapse completely.