Tuesday, January 4, 2022 · Doug Mehl, Azaz Faruki and Joseph Ehinger
Advances in ML and other technologies are creating possibilities few companies have fully considered, including the power to turn employee attrition into retention.
Monday, January 3, 2022 · Ken Cottrill, Editorial Director for MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
MIT researchers are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to give robots the ability to work in teams with humans and even identify ways to improve team performance.
President Biden’s executive order, “Made-in-America,” signed in 2021 makes it clear that the 100-year-old Jones Act will remain intact for the foreseeable future.
Irrespective of mode, rates will be escalating, with carriers controlling capacity and exercising leverage like never before. Given the shortage of manpower and labor pools across the spectrum of global logistics, supply chain managers will be struggling.
Rate Forecasts are always challenging for the rail and intermodal sector, says Jason Kuehn, vice president of the consultancy Oliver Wyman. But this one feels more difficult than most.
As 2021 nears a close, the supply chain continues to be in crisis with nearly 100 ships backed up and waiting to unload. With an ongoing labor shortage in dock workers and truckers, every potential solution creates new types of obstacles.
Shippers may expect a second year of big increases in 2022 for ocean contract rates, says Philip Damas director and head of the supply chain advisors practice at London-based Drewry.
“The questions we know how to ask today are not the questions we need to ask for the future,” said one of the speakers at last week’s National Association of Manufacturers Leadership Council in New Orleans. This statement gave me pause. If we are only asking questions…
New research from Supplyframe indicates that most Americans (64%) are planning to get an early jump on holiday shopping this year in hopes of beating possible shipping or other supply chain constraints.
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