10xLogistics
APRIL 9, 2013
The March Cass Freight Index is out and while freight showed a marked increase in march ( 5.8% Feb to Mar and 4.2% YoY) the expenditure increase can almost totally be attributed to the increase in freight - meaning rates are staying fairly steady. What this does not show is things soften in the first week of April, which I fully expect to see in this month's report.
Apparel Logistics
APRIL 12, 2013
But what happens when success is so rapid, so unexpected that a company finds that it can't keep up? Can companies scale up quickly enough to meet demand without bankrupting themselves, sacrificing the quality of their products or abandoning their values?
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Infosys Supply Chain Management
APRIL 8, 2013
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10xLogistics
APRIL 7, 2013
I have talked for years in speeches and in advising companies that the supply chain will become the competitive advantage for those trying to move products to market. Especially if you are a retailer, you compete on supply chain in a major way. In a blog post recently, titled Execution IS a Strategy I also talked about how great execution, more and more, differentiates the different retailers.
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10xLogistics
APRIL 11, 2013
PCs replace mini and mainframes, Laptops replace desktops, tablets replace laptops, smartphones replace tablets. and so the saga goes. The incredible shrinking freight. PC sales are horrible.
10xLogistics
APRIL 6, 2013
The major economic news yesterday which, for a short period of time shattered the markets, was the jobs report. Some key statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) press release : Employment up 88K (Far below estimates) Long Term unemployed remained constant at about 4.6M Unemployment rate ticked down ever so slightly 7.6% However the big number people were concerned with was the level of unemployed people who have dropped out of the labor market.
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