by Dave Frentzel | Feb 2, 2019 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
Shippers have many options when choosing a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Even with industry consolidations, there are thousands of companies that offer logistics services – brokers, freight forwarders, contract logistics companies, tech-based startups, and so...
by Dave Frentzel | Sep 17, 2018 | Briefs, Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
Third-party logistics (3PL) providers and their customers have yet another huge wave of industry innovation and growth to ride. The first wave in the modern era of 3PLs in the US began in the 1980s with trucking deregulation, business process outsourcing, and the...
by Dave Frentzel | Feb 16, 2018 | Briefs, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
The most well-known and spectacular (or some might say highly speculative) instance of a blockchain distributed ledger technology (DLT) is bitcoin, the cryptocurrency platform. Yet when one takes a broader view of this emerging technology, supply chain applications...
by Dave Frentzel | Dec 21, 2017 | Briefs, Investor Advisory, Strategy, Transportation & Logistics, Value Creation
It’s no secret that Amazon has become a giant of commerce. Today, Amazon represents nearly 44 percent of the US retail e-commerce market and about 4% of all US retail sales. In 2016, the company alone accounted for 53 percent of all retail e-commerce growth. Along the...
by Dave Frentzel | Sep 16, 2016 | Briefs, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
In his recent Wall Street Journal Keywords1 column, Christopher Mims writes that the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) is about Services, rather than about Things. Indeed, for Third Party Logistics companies (3PLs) – service providers that have long linked...
by Thomas Keane | Aug 5, 2016 | Briefs, Consumer & Retail, Industrial & Distribution, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
What does it take for new inland ports to succeed? This white paper aims to answer this question, based on the use of case studies and underlying freight trends. We offer, in closing, a ten-point checklist of key success factors in the planning and preparation for new...
