HOW TO FIGHT THE HIGH COST OF MOVING FREIGHT

摘要

Historians might well point to 2005 as the year that supply chain management came of age, but that distinction has nothing to do with the increasing sophistication of the tools or a wholesale agreement that perfor- mance metrics matter. It was 2005 when transportation costs rose 15.2%, to $583 billion. The amount spent on diesel fuel alone in the U.S. jumped from $65.9 billion in 2004 to $87.7 billion in 2005—a huge 33% increase.