2022 Future Of Supply Chain

FOSC chat: Truckstop.com’s Hutto talks data and transparency

Truckstop.com booth at FreightWaves' Future of Supply Chain

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ The Future of Supply Chain live event being held in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Data, brokers and freight transparency.

DETAILS: FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller welcomed Brent Hutto of Truckstop.com on the stage to discuss how the freight brokerage model has changed over the years, why participants are clamoring for data, and how companies like FreightWaves and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-truckstopcoms-hutto-talks-data-and-transparency

FOSC keynote: How data revolutionized baseball

A man sitting on a leather chair talks to another person with one arm extended.

Use of data in baseball is about far more than fans and commentators rattling off arcane facts about the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox. Statistical analysis today plays a powerful role in forming the best teams.

Fans, owners and players have a deep emotional connection to the sport — and that’s exactly why data analysis can be so useful: It can take the emotion out of decision-making. In fact, it helped a small-market team like the Oakland A’s win six American League West Division...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-keynote-how-data-revolutionized-baseball

FOSC chat: Mastercard and Transcard talk freight payments

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain live event in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: The importance of payments technology in the freight industry.

DETAILS: In the freight industry, plenty of emphasis is placed on things like speed, accuracy and flexibility. But at what cost? Payments have traditionally been something of an afterthought in the freight space, at least when it comes to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-mastercard-and-transcard-talk-freight-payments

Supply chain’s future will be mode-agnostic, J.B. Hunt’s Simpson says

Building an intelligent, efficient supply chain requires providers of all types to shed their siloed mindsets and collaborate in areas where in the past that might have been seen as problematic, a top executive at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT) said Monday.

Keynoting FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain live event in Rogers, Arkansas, Shelley Simpson (pictured), Hunt’s chief commercial officer and executive vice president of people and human resources, said future supply chains...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/supply-chains-future-will-be-mode-agnostic-hunts-simpson-says

FOSC chat: The importance of adding capacity partners

Emerge executives George Abernathy and Andrew Leto.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain live event being held in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Working with multiple partners can pay off in the logistics world.

SPEAKER: Andrew Leto, CEO of Emerge, with George Abernathy, president of Emerge.

BIO: Leto has been in the logistics industry since 2003 when he founded GlobalTranz after serving five years in the U.S. Navy. Having built a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-the-importance-of-adding-capacity-partners

FreightWaves releases National Trucking Index to measure domestic truckload market

FreightWaves released the National Trucking Index (NTI) during Monday’s Day 1 of The Future Of Supply Chain event, providing a benchmark that is dedicated to measuring the direction of the domestic truckload market. 

The NTI is a seven-day moving average of spot rates that measures the U.S. for-hire, over-the-road dry van trucking market. This sector of the truckload market represents about 90% of all trucking freight services.

The NTI’s moving average measures dry van truckload transactions that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-releases-national-trucking-index-to-measure-domestic-truckload-market

FOSC chat: Using supply chain analysis for M&A

Matt Waller and Dennis Hammen are sitting on the FreightWaves stage talking during The Future of Supply Chain event.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain live event in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Importance of supply chain analysis in mergers and acquisitions.

DETAILS: Matt Waller, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and Dennis Hammen discuss the role of supply chains and scaling in mergers and acquisitions with smaller companies.

SPEAKER: Hammen is the head...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-using-supply-chain-analysis-for-ma

FOSC chat: Technology enabling supply chain agility

Matt Waller and Ildefonso Silva are sitting down on the FreightWaves stage during The Future of Supply Chain event.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ The Future of Supply Chain live event in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Enabling supply chain agility through digital capabilities.

DETAILS: Matt Waller, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and Ildefonso Silva discuss how technology can help people understand which data is the most important and improve supply chain agility.

SPEAKER:...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-technology-enabling-supply-chain-agility

The Future of Supply Chain weather forecast: Clear road ahead

Map showing Rogers, Arkansas area.

The Future of Supply Chain, FreightWaves’ first in-person event since November 2019, will take Northwest Arkansas by storm next week.

Shaking up the industry again with an all-new freight experience, more than 1,600 registered guests and dozens of amazing speakers will crowd the Rogers Convention Center on Monday and Tuesday.

Severe storms hit this part of the country twice this week, flooding streets and blowing down trees and power lines in the nearby cities of Fayetteville and Bentonville,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-future-of-supply-chain-weather-forecast-clear-road-ahead

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