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Inbound Logistics: What’s One Underrated Skill in Supply Chain Management?
From composure to the ability to handle objections, these skills may not be part of curriculums but they make for great supply chain managers.
Supply Chain Dive: FedEx, UPS 2024 rate increases & what shippers should know
The variances within the carriers’ price hikes indicate what services are seeing the most pressure from competitors, experts say.
Fortune: The largest freight bankruptcy in history punched a $5 billion hole in the economy, cost 30,000 jobs, and left the taxpayer holding the bag for a COVID bailout
A long-shot deal could revive Yellow and bring back some of its lost 30,000 jobs—the U.S. taxpayer has a decision to make.
Supply Chain Quarterly: A final farewell
Tom Nightingale, the 2023 Board Chair for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals recaps accomplishments from his term and what lies ahead.
Supply Chain Dive: Ground parcel delivery costs fall as carriers offer up discounts
The pricing environment has shifted in favor of shippers with demand cooling off, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index.
AFS named a 2023 Top Company for Women in Transportation
Company recognized for culture supportive of gender diversity and flexibility, complemented by career opportunity, competitive compensation and quality benefits.
DC Velocity: Beset by loose capacity and weak demand, where do parcel express carriers go from here?
Shippers are regaining pricing leverage as an uninspiring peak season has carriers pining for pandemic-era volumes.
Journal of Commerce: US LTL carriers gaining freight and hiking rates, but real recovery is elusive
Less-than-truckload freight once hauled by Yellow is being “reallocated” among carriers, and rates are rising, but an underlying economic impetus for a surge in LTL
