02/08/2021Supply Chain Labor 2021 Outlook Reading Time: 4 minutes Supply Chain Labor 2021 Outlook Featuring Nancy Stefanowicz, EVP, Chief Human Resource Officer at NFI What do you think will be in store for the industry in 2021? All human resource (HR) professionals in 2020 have learned how to work through disruption. I think of 2008, the year the finance teams came into the forefront… Continue reading Supply Chain Labor 2021 Outlook
01/29/2021Dedicated Transportation 2021 Outlook Reading Time: 5 minutes Dedicated Transportation 2021 Outlook Featuring Bill Mahoney, EVP, Chief Commercial Officer What do you think will be in store for dedicated transportation in 2021? Until people return to the majority of their workplaces and travel opens up and a vaccine is distributed, we believe the first two quarters of 2021 will look very similar to… Continue reading Dedicated Transportation 2021 Outlook
01/20/2021Transportation Management 2021 Outlook Reading Time: 3 minutes Transportation Management 2021 Outlook Featuring Jeff Kanterman, RVP of Transportation Management at NFI What do you think will be in store for transportation management in 2021? Much of the supply chain disruptions that occurred over the past years were mainly due to consumer behavior, and a lot of it had to do with e-commerce and… Continue reading Transportation Management 2021 Outlook
12/16/20202020 Dedicated Transportation Year in Review Reading Time: 5 minutes Year in Review: Dedicated Transportation William Mahoney, Senior Vice President Sales and Account Management What have you seen this past year in the dedicated transportation market? It has truly been a year unlike any other. We saw 2020 at the start of the pandemic being a pretty scary environment as many of our retail customers were… Continue reading 2020 Dedicated Transportation Year in Review
11/11/2020Industry Insights: As the Holiday Season Arrives, Constraints at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Ports Tighten Even More Reading Time: 4 minutes As the country heads into the holiday peak season, gridlock at the LA/LB port complex continues. Struggles with delayed vessel arrivals, congestion, labor availability, chassis shortages, and appointment system shortcomings continue to hamper the flow of containers. The industry continues to push for a more collaborative approach to problem-solving that looks to address the many… Continue reading Industry Insights: As the Holiday Season Arrives, Constraints at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Ports Tighten Even More
10/04/2020Digital Twin – The Key for Proactive Supply Chain Planning Reading Time: 5 minutes Guest Blog Post: Felipe Molino, Director of Solutions Engineering and Chris Pryer, Senior Scientist, NFI Disruptions have become commonplace in the supply chain industry. For years, natural disasters and ever-changing regulations have highlighted company and industry instability. Most recently, companies were proven ill-equipped to manage significant and immediate change after the global COVID-19 pandemic caused… Continue reading Digital Twin – The Key for Proactive Supply Chain Planning
08/24/2020Adding CAI Logistics to the NFI Family: Insight from David BroeringReading Time: 4 minutes David Broering, President of Non-Asset Logistics at NFI, offers insight into NFI’s acquisition of CAI Logistics and how the partnership will enhance NFI’s solutions, geographic footprint, and customer service. Why was CAI Logistics a good fit for NFI? Looking at the CAI Logistics business at a high level, they operate in three of the four… Continue reading Adding CAI Logistics to the NFI Family: Insight from David Broering
02/26/2019Guest Post: Mama Heidi’s Tips for Staying Alert Reading Time: < 1 minute Safety is key for truck drivers who haul freight on a daily basis, and for those with long or even short routine routes, trips can get boring or distracting at times. Staying alert is critical when on the road. In this week’s guest post, NFI Driver Heidi B. provides a helpful list on how to… Continue reading Guest Post: Mama Heidi’s Tips for Staying Alert
01/22/2019Distribution and Dedicated Transportation Outlooks: 2019 Reading Time: 2 minutes Guest Blog: William Mahoney, Senior Vice President, Sales at NFI Distribution Outlook Inventory levels in 2019 will continue to grow creating the demand for more third-party warehousing space in the coming year. Preemptive purchases for imported products from China looking to avoid new tariff fees will bleed out in the first half of 2019. Inventory… Continue reading Distribution and Dedicated Transportation Outlooks: 2019