Fhyzics Digest XXII- 09 December

SCM in News

Forward Air Stresses Focus on High-Value Freight in Mid-Quarter Update

On a quarter-to-date period through November, for its Expedited Freight operating statistics, the company said that shipments per day were up 2.4% annually, with revenue per hundredweight up 14.7%, pounds per day down 11.9%, and weight per shipment down 14.0%, for the same period ... Read More

Truckload: Easing Back to Normal?

Carrier executives continue to yearn for supply/demand equation to even out as inventory slowly rebuilds. In the meantime, capacity for fleet growth remains limited due to constraints on equipment and qualified drivers. Does this recurring news actually signal a return to normal? ... Read More

Ryder System Heralds New Drop-and-Hook Trailer Service

Company officials said that by leveraging capacity through Ryder’s peer-to-peer truck- and trailer-sharing platform, COOP by Ryder, its customers gain access to a fleet comprised of dry and refrigerated trailers, adding that COOP has more than 6,000 trailers listed throughout the country, with its … Read More

SCM Quiz #214

Brush up your supply chain knowledge by taking our Daily SCM Quiz!?Click here?to take SCM Quiz #214. The correct answer of this quiz and the first 10 correctly answered participants' names will be posted in the upcoming quiz.

The correct answer of the?SCM Quiz 213 is (B) Master Scheduling

The?First 5 correctly answered participants' names of SCM?Quiz?#213 are Balendran, Sabithan, Jeyakanthan, Kalairaj, Vignesh

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SCM Term of the Day

Waste

(1) In Lean and Just-in-Time, any activity that does not add value to the good or service in the eyes of the consumer. (2) A by-product of a process or task with unique characteristics requiring special management control. Waste production can usually be planned and controlled. Scrap is typically not planned and may result from the same production run as waste

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