Hot off the press: JBF Freight Transportation Bulletin May 2020 Welcome to the May 2020 Freight Transportation BulletinGlobal economics, freight markets and technological innovation all impact your supply chains and logistics operations. To keep you informed, JBF Consulting team sources content from leading… Read More
One of the industries that has been hit hardest by the quarantine is foodservice. This white paper by Technomic estimates a drop in 18 to 26% of consumer spending in 2020 for the sector. The paper also discusses how different… Read More
Hot off the press: JBF Freight Transportation Bulletin April 2020 Subscribe for updates: https://lnkd.in/e5kRGBd In This Issue Freight Market Index April 2020 Transport-Centric Macroeconomic Metrics [April 13 Update] Data Validation Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic Of… Read More
ERP implementations are notoriously difficult to tackle. The list of failed projects is long and makes for entertaining, if lurid, reading: The Biggest ERP Failures of All Time, Eric Kimberling and ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the… Read More
As we write this, much of the world is hunkered down in their home trying to escape infection and propagation of the COVID-19 virus. We are grateful to all those who are still helping others and providing essential services. We… Read More
Hot off the press: JBF Freight Transportation Bulletin March 2020. Subscribe for updates: https://lnkd.in/e5kRGBd Operations and Supply Chain Disruption COVID-19 is giving the world an unwanted crash course in supply chain management. Before the pandemic, supply chain professionals quietly and competently went about… Read More
The purpose of this article is to provide a brief overview of the technology and will serve as a foundation for future articles that will tackle specific aspects in greater detail.
Good news, this is NOT yet another article extolling the virtues of blockchains! In fact, it’s somewhat the contrary. We are not saying that blockchains are bad or useless, but some of us have been a little too optimistic in… Read More
Hot off the press: JBF Freight Transportation Bulletin February 2020. In this issue… TL Operating Costs, Freight Market Index January 2020, Analytics and Optimization Opportunities for an Automotive TMS, and more. Read the latest issue HERE. Subscribe for updates: https://lnkd.in/e5kRGBd
Humans have been making predictions probably ever since we’ve developed consciousness. Most people will agree that the vast majority of predictions with a distant horizon have proven untrue. A few were spot-on such as concepts like video telephony and self-driving… Read More
