Companies committed to reducing transportation spend should get their year started off right by assessing their company’s transportation in order to identify changes that make an appreciable difference and then decide which are worth the effort. There are five steps in a transportation self-assessment that can put your company on the right track.
Last week, SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore highlighted supply chain predictions for 2017 from a number of supply chain gurus in our virtual panel. The second half of his two part column series will run this week, with more summaries from rest of our panel.
Jim Barnes, CEO of consulting and software firm enVista, offered some predictions for the retail supply chain. As usual, Barnes had some provocative things to say.
Indianapolis-based supply chain and consulting IT services firm enVista assisted the nonprofit group Outreach Inc. in its mission to help homeless young men and women achieve stability and life transformation. enVista employees collected 51 brand-new coats, 60 hats, and 60 pairs of gloves for the group’s clients and worked three shifts to serve Thanksgiving dinner to 150 people.
enVista was featured on Inside Indiana Business alongside client, VU LTEC, this past weekend. The television segment highlights not only the VU LTEC training facility, but also VU LTEC partnered with enVista to give students hands-on experience with the latest and greatest technology used daily in distribution centers today. The televised segment originally aired on both WFYI-TV and WTHR-TV and can be viewed online.
In 2017, FedEx and UPS will be diverging in transportation rates, the DIM factor, and the fuel surcharge calculation. In this new enVista article featured in Parcel magazine, find out what these changes are and how they will impact your operations.
