Is there any supply chain in the world as large and complex as the one headed up by Santa Claus? In the midst of the holidays (perhaps a bit tempered this pandemic year), many of us eagerly await the arrival… Read More
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JBF Freight Transportation Bulletin #12
Welcome to the November 2020 issue of JBF Freight Transportation Industry Bulletin, a monthly newsletter by the JBF Consulting team, with a focus on supply chain, transportation, logistics and of course freight. THANK YOU for being here. P.S. Was this… Read More
Head Coach of Your TMS Team
A couple weeks ago I wrote about having a shiny new Transportation Management System in place. The vendor and your IT teams have moved on to the next project, and you may be left wondering what to do next. I… Read More
Automation Isn’t Always the Answer
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
Detail Design of a TMS Implementation
This past week, three JBF Consulting colleagues and a dedicated group of subject matter experts, business leads and IT leads/analysts on the client-side spent this past week sequestered in a windowless conference room. We were hashing out the detail design… Read More
Is your TMS Adequate or Extraordinary?
One and done? “Don’t worry, Mike. Phase 2 never comes.” That was the guidance whispered to me by a fellow consultant I was working with at a TMS kick-off meeting in the mid-1990s. The shipper, a large consumer package goods… Read More