07/01/2021What the Approaching ILWU-PMA Contract Renewal Means for Shippers After a year marred by congestion, skyrocketing cargo handling costs, increased demand as a result of the pandemic, and looming clean air mandates, West Coast marine terminal operators have had all the more reason to explore productivity improvements and cost-saving options like automation. Historically, concern about displacing and replacing employees with robotics had prompted the… Continue reading What the Approaching ILWU-PMA Contract Renewal Means for Shippers
06/25/2021Transportation Management: Collaboratively Implementing Solutions Meet the Team Making TM Implementation an Effortless Endeavor Through a planned, partnered approach, NFI’s Transportation Management (TM) team implements solutions that get customers up and running with powerful network capabilities in a matter of weeks. In this video, team members Bill Wolfe and Darren Conner highlight how NFI is able to address complex implementation… Continue reading Transportation Management: Collaboratively Implementing Solutions
05/17/2021An NFI Website and Brand Rejuvenation NFI is excited to unveil today a new company website which reflects the differentiated and innovative value our company brings to customers, employees, and the North American supply chain marketplace. Since its inception in 1932, NFI has risen to become a leader in the logistics and supply chain space. As the company has expanded its… Continue reading An NFI Website and Brand Rejuvenation
05/03/2021How to Navigate the Complexities of Today’s Drayage Market North America’s drayage market is as complex as ever. Congestion at the ports, increasing demurrage costs, competition for chassis, and other mounting issues have created havoc for shippers attempting to get a hold of their supply chain. As NFI continues to help customers navigate through the intricacies of the continent’s port complexes, NFI Vice President… Continue reading How to Navigate the Complexities of Today’s Drayage Market
04/08/2021Transportation Management: Engineering for the Future Meet the TM Engineers Driving Customer Value They’re not supply chain engineers, they’re supply chain scientists. Calculated risk-taking and hands-on program design are enabling NFI’s Transportation Management team to customize solutions of the future for NFI customers. In this video, team members Felipe Molino and Kayla Broyles highlight how NFI is able to deliver custom,… Continue reading Transportation Management: Engineering for the Future
02/19/2021Supply Chain Mergers & Acquisitions 2021 Outlook Supply Chain Mergers & Acquisitions 2021 Outlook Featuring TJ Lynch, SVP Finance and Marketing at NFI What do you think will be in store for the market in 2021? The pandemic has had a pretty significant impact on M&A during this time period and there’s a couple of things that happened. Number one, companies that… Continue reading Supply Chain Mergers & Acquisitions 2021 Outlook
02/16/2021Industrial Real Estate 2021 Outlook Industrial Real Estate 2021 Outlook Featuring Michael Landsburg, Chief Development Officer at NFI What do you think will be in store for the logistics real estate market in 2021? As we look ahead to 2021, certainly on the industrial and logistics real estate side, we see continued growth in the market, demand for our space,… Continue reading Industrial Real Estate 2021 Outlook
02/12/2021Supply Chain Technology 2021 Outlook Supply Chain Technology 2021 Outlook Featuring Gerard Darby, EVP, Chief Information Officer at NFI What do you think will be in store from an IT perspective in 2021? NFI is going to continue to grow quickly, which means we have to continue to evolve how nimble we are and how scalable we are making our… Continue reading Supply Chain Technology 2021 Outlook
02/10/2021Supply Chain Innovation 2021 Outlook Supply Chain Innovation 2021 Outlook Featuring Jimmy Shafer, SVP Integrated Design and Solutions at NFI What do you think will be in store for the logistics industry as a whole in 2021? Asset sharing, and sharing in general, of data and information is going to be at the forefront. Traditionally, that’s not something that has… Continue reading Supply Chain Innovation 2021 Outlook
02/08/2021Supply Chain Labor 2021 Outlook 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