By Chris Brumitt ·
March 4, 2024
Strategies for weaponizing supply chain/network management capabilities in uncertain times.
By Bob Trebilcock ·
March 30, 2023
Digitalizing the business is only step one in a digital transformation. The next step is upskilling the workforce for the digital supply chain.
By Roberto Michel ·
March 27, 2023
Labor availability issues remain a core driver for warehouse automation and robotics, but ProMat exhibitors were also talking up analytics, algorithms, and digital twin modeling as a means of containing costs in inflationary times.
By Jeff Berman ·
March 24, 2023
A group of national industry associations, largely representing shippers and freight transportation and logistics services providers, called on President Joe Biden, in a letter, to take action, regarding the still-unresolved West Coast port labor negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
By Brian Straight ·
March 22, 2023
While most are concerned about availability of skilled employees, only 43% feel prepared to address the challenge.
By LM Staff ·
March 13, 2023
A new Korn Ferry survey of supply chain leaders identifies key changes in the function and the skills and experiences needed to succeed in this new environment.
By Marisa Brown, Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain, APQC ·
March 1, 2023
People are central to overcoming supply chain obstacles in 2023.
By Jeff Berman ·
February 8, 2023
A major source of contention between United States Class I railroads and 12 railroad labor unions leading up to the brokered deal between the parties, in order to avert a strike, in early December, focused on the number of sick days railroad workers were allowed to have. Signs of progress on that front were made clear this week, with Jacksonville-based Class I freight railroad carrier CSX saying it has come to terms on agreements for two unions—the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way (BMWED), which represents engineering employees, and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC), which represents mechanical workers—with both unions representing around a cumulative 5,000 railroad workers.
By Jeff Berman ·
February 2, 2023
A key theme in Atlanta-based global freight transportation and express delivery and logistics services provider UPS’s fourth quarter earnings call yesterday centered around its contract with the Teamsters, which is set to expire on July 31. On the earnings call, UPS CEO Carol Tomé made it clear where UPS is coming from, in advance of its negotiations with the Teamsters, noting that the Teamsters have very important to the company for the better part of the last 100 years.
By Sungyun Ryoo, Maanasa Shivkumar, Sophia Sackleh, Tim Maguire, Uloma Ezeogu, Mae Gleeson ·
January 25, 2023
This highly prized commodity is making improvements to its value chain from improved sustainability to labor requirements.
By Bob Trebilcock ·
December 17, 2022
On this episode, we catch up with Rosemary Coates, host of the Frictionless podcast, and an expert on global supply chain management. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.
By Jeff Berman ·
December 5, 2022
The Logistics Management editorial team presents the top 10 logistics stories of 2022.
By Jeff Berman ·
December 2, 2022
On the heels of the U.S. House of Representatives signing off on legislation aiming to quell the impasse between the remaining railroad labor unions that had yet to ratify terms of the tentative agreement outlined by President Biden’s Presidential Emergency Board’s (PEB) tentative agreement, the United States Senate followed suite yesterday, preventing a freight railroad labor strike that, had it occurred, could have cost the nation’s economy upwards of $2 billion per day.
By Jeff Berman ·
November 29, 2022
On a media conference call hosted by the Association of American Railroads (AAR), various industry associations made their respective cases for Congress to step in to help resolve the ongoing dispute between the remaining four railroad labor unions yet to ratify terms of a tentative labor agreement and the United States-based Class I freight railroads.
By Jeff Berman ·
November 29, 2022
As the clock ticks towards December 9, the end of the status quo, or “cooling off” period, for the four remaining railroad labor groups yet to ratify the terms of the tentative agreements with United States-based Class I freight railroad carriers, President Biden yesterday called on Congress to pass legislation to “adopt the Tentative Agreement between railroad workers and operators—without any modifications or delay—to avert a potentially crippling national rail shutdown.”