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So welcome back to The Outliers Inn! In spite of the incredible odds that recent history has demonstrated, Mule finally gets the timing right and is able to join as the co-host. It’s just as well, because Don, “The Beer Man” is MIA for today’s episode. Mule starts by sharing the reports of automobile break-ins…
When was the last time you played Jenga? Maybe you set it up with your kids on a rainy Sunday afternoon, or maybe you idly played it with friends at a brewery. Either way, after you built up this precarious tower of wooden blocks, you had one goal: to keep it from falling down. As…
Running to standard Whenever there is a problem, we should always first ask the question: Are we running to standard? Often the issue is that we’ve not followed the standard and we simply aren’t doing what we ought to be doing. It can be hard to admit to ourselves that we’ve merely been human and…
Tender rejection data in the FreightWaves SONAR data platform shows that the freight market bottomed on May 14. Since then, conditions for carriers have slowly been improving. SONAR’s outbound tender rejection index (OTRI) tracks the balance of supply and demand in trucking by measuring the percentage of truckload freight that is rejected. In trucking, supply…
Our core scenario is that 2023 is the year that supply chains return to normal and companies turn to long-term supply chain strategies. We identify 10 data points that show supply chains mostly returning to normal, though there are notable areas of concern. We also flag what’s next for each measure. Excerpt from the beginning…
