JBF CEO Brad Forester, along with Tony Wayda, and Chris Doersen, attended the Manifest 2025 in Las Vegas. This show brought together the most comprehensive ecosystem of innovation and transformation in supply chain and logistics.
Manifest 2025
Events
Inland Academy 2024: How Does a Shipper Determine What TMS They Need?
The Inland Distribution Conference is a three-day event focused on North American transportation and logistics in the region’s cargo capital of Chicago. Mike Mulqueen will discuss the 4 critical steps that shippers should use to ensure that the right logistics technologies are selected and deployed.
Industry Experts Share Smart Solutions for Freight Challenges in North America
Industry experts explore the latest market trends and challenges in North American freight transportation, including artificial intelligence, transportation networks, nearshoring, sustainability, and data-driven decision making. Going one step further, discover solutions empowering shippers and carriers to respond more quickly, intelligently, and effectively.
AI-Driven Solutions and Future TMS Enhancements Unveiled at Blue Yonder ICON 2024
Blue Yonder certainly has the products (even more so with recent acquisitions) to accomplish this, but the deciding factor will be how well they are able to make all of the products work with each other to be truly integrated.
The Naked Truth about AI in Logistics
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was formed in 1956, but this past year—almost 70 years later—has brought AI to the forefront for many businesses. In a recent LinkedIn Live, Tony Wayda, JBF Consulting, and Brian Carlson, Cornerstone Edge, discussed the evolving role of AI in the supply chain and warehousing sector and explored how much of it is marketing versus factual AI applications.
Innovations in TMS and WMS Solutions for The Supply Chain of the Future
We recently attended the FreightWaves Future of Supply Chain conference, a premier industry event offering a front-row view of the road ahead. This conference is where the industry’s thought leaders converge, charting the course for tomorrow’s supply chain advancements. Here’s our key takeaways.
Insights from Manifest 2023 Supply Chain Conference
Earlier this month our team attended the Manifest 2023 Logistics Conference in Vegas. Over the course of the 3-day event, we had many conversations with colleagues and attended workshops. Here’s a break down of our key insights and themes from the conference.
5 Key Aspects of OTM Platform Reviewed
Unlike user conferences put on by competing supply chain suite providers, the Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Special Interest Group (OTM-SIG) 3-day event solely focuses on transportation management and global trade. Given my primary role at JBF Consulting is to evaluate and recommend TMS solutions for our customers, the main stage presentation given by Oracle Sr. Director of Strategy, Dr. Srini Rajagopal was most relevant to me. In this session, Dr. Rajagopal laid out Oracle’s short to mid-term strategic investment areas. Here are the 5 most interesting roadmap items as well as my perspective on their usefulness for a transportation operation.
5 Key Aspects of BY’s New Luminate TMS Platform Reviewed
“Blue Yonder has the best pedigree of any supply chain company as it pertains to math based, predictive decision making.”
Llamacon 2020 Conference Recap
We attended the Llamacon conference (#LLamaCon) this past week (June 16 to 18). This is a yearly event held by Llamasoft that brings together the world community of Supply Chain Design (SCD). Like most, if not all conferences nowadays, it… Read More
