Category Archives: Logistics

This article asks a good question.

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But it’s an obvious answer.  the supply chain is like a cooperative, and all the participants have to share in the benefit or they will look elsewhere.  This accounts for the rise of 3PL’s.   A 3PL has a better chance of acting like a ‘supply chain manager’ by balancing the needs of each participant.   And it is so complex in a long supply chain that special attention and expertise is demanded.  A specialist may be able to lower the transaction costs of planning, monitoring, and controlling for the members.

This is an interesting article. Apparently we are not really inspecting containers, and a lot of them have hazardous materials in them. So what about terrorists?

Mostly we do not know what is in containers, and we also don’t know if they cause accidents and fires or not!  And politically we can’t agree on what to inspect and where.  Seems like an expensive nightmare for the world.

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