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3PL Summit: Retaining top talent for operational excellence

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit on Wednesday February 26.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Recruit, Train and Retain: How Your People Strategy Makes or Breaks Operational Excellence

DETAILS: Kaylee Nix sits down with Nick Strober of Lean Solutions Group to talk about how even though staffing trends across the transportation industry are changing, the key to ensuring the best possible team still boils down to the basics of recruiting and training.

KEY QUOTES FROM STROBER:

“It’s making...

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Mexican decree ends ‘border-skipping’ strategy

Mexican president puts end to border-skipping

Ocean demand from China to Mexico has grown sharply in recent years, which many attribute to border-skipping. (Chart: SONAR)

The coming months are likely to be marked by sweeping changes to trade policies that shippers, particularly apparel and e-commerce companies, will have to adapt to. Those changes are starting to take place even before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second administration. On Dec. 19, Mexican President Claudia...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/mexican-decree-ends-border-skipping-strategy

Supply chains need more resilience, but shippers in no rush to re-evaluate

The Covid-19 pandemic has been widely described as a wake-up call for shippers and consignees to re-evaluate supply chains exposed as vulnerable.
The disruption has put supply chain risk in the spotlight, reinforcing concerns raised by earlier cataclysmic events, like severe flooding in Japan and Thailand.
Among voices extolling the need for more resilience – even at the cost of higher spend on production – has been the Council of Supply Chain …

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Lean Staffing Solutions offers full stack of tech, sales and marketing services

Over the past two years, Lean Staffing Solutions has diversified its offerings beyond back-office logistics employees to include revenue-generating positions, sales, marketing and software development. 

At the beginning of October, Lean announced that it had raised a $42.5 million growth equity minority investment from FTV Capital. In a press release, Lean founder and Chief Executive Officer Robert Cadena said the capital would help Lean “advance our product and services and launch into new...

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‘Risk to supply chains from climate disruption a bigger issue than Covid-19’

Supply chains are undergoing a profound transformation, according to DHL and consultant McKinsey.
DHL has published a study entitled Post-coronavirus Supply Chain Recovery, which predicts more diversification of geographies, suppliers and business models as well as a more holistic view of risk management.
“Post-coronavirus supply chains will not be the same as they were pre-coronavirus,” it says, and one prominent trend in this transformative process is a stronger emphasis on supply chain...

https://theloadstar.com/risk-to-supply-chains-from-climate-disruption-a-much-bigger-issue-than-covid-19/

Diversify post-Covid, but ‘shorter supply chains aren’t a shortcut to more efficiency’

A post-pandemic push to diversify and shorten supply chains poses new risks to cargo owners, a senior container transport executive has warned.
Following the virus outbreak in China and subsequent ripples of supply chain disruption worldwide, calls for near-shoring and an end to over-reliance on a single sourcing location have grown louder.
Governments in particular are likely to reassess supply chains for medical equipment and critical drugs.
However, Mike Bhaskaran, chief technology officer …

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