Dooner and The Dude check in with a truckers philanthropy, talk market strategy and more on this live episode of WTT?!?
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Supply Chain Summit
How a legacy logistics company moved to the front of the freight-tech line
Ryder System (NYSE:R) has adopted a decidedly futuristic mindset when it comes to investing in the new supply chain technologies that are sweeping the industry and upending traditional ways of doing business.
“Being such an old company, we could find ourselves stuck,” said Kendra Phillips, CTO and VP of New Products for Ryder, the 90-year old transportation and logistics giant.
“We can’t let that happen,” she continued. While Ryder is interested in tech solutions that make existing systems more...
Frozen-food industry increased supply lines in pandemic: Trade group chief (with video)
The nation’s frozen-food industry has broadened its supply lines as a result of the pandemic and boosted the number of its suppliers, according to the head of the sector’s key trade group.
Alison Bodor, president of the American Frozen Foods Institute, told the FreightWaves North American Supply Chain Summit in a solo chat that the need for a more diverse supply chain was a “lesson learned” for the industry.
“When the pandemic first started, it was typical for companies to have one or two...