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Hurricane Milton Poses ‘Big Ripple Effect’ for Supply Chains

Blue Grace Logistics

Some areas in Florida have shelter-in-place orders, likely limiting available trucking capacity and shipper operations throughout the end of the week. Now those trucks are not where they thought they were going to be, so now we have to find other trucks there. It stayed, and it’s helping.

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Tech Titan: Bobby Harris, Founder & CEO of BlueGrace Logistics

Blue Grace Logistics

The Logistics Blog®. Case Study. Harris’s background was in the trucking industry. Tech Titan: Bobby Harris, Founder & CEO of BlueGrace Logistics Show Submenu Resources. Whitepaper. BlueGrace Logistics. Bobby Harris founded BlueGrace Logistics in 2009 to help businesses better understand and optimize transportation.

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Bringing Order to Chaos: Last-Mile Delivery Costs and How to Reduce Them

Locus

Fuel costs: Last-mile fuel costs require careful management as they make up 25% of a truck’s operational costs over volatile price fluctuations. A recent analysis by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) indicates that if existing trends persist, we could see a potential driver shortage reaching up to 175,000 by 2024.

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Top Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015

GlobalTranz

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We are now on the 4th of our 5 main blog categories we will feature as we wind down the year. Read the full article here. .

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. Category Key. Western Europe selects container standards for rail, also intended for ship and truck. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. Here’s how it happened. . Malcom McLean.

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System. All key Suppliers are called into your operation.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring.