LOGISTICS GETS SCHOOLED

摘要

When Andrew Lynch started in the logistics business nearly 20 years ago, he had to learn the distance between hundreds of routes-say, from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Edison, New Jersey-as well as the cost to move a shipment from one location to the other. Today, logistics professionals like Lynch, president and co-founder of Zipline Logistics based in Columbus, Ohio, can retrieve this information online. Instead, they're faced with more complicated challenges, such as finding the optimal way to move a shipment when it has to be delivered in the middle of the night, incurring accessorial fees along with standard freight charges. As logistics challenges become more complex and technology advances, ongoing education, innovation, and research has become a competitive imperative for logistics and supply chain companies.