Good Question
Good Question: What was your first job in logistics and what did it teach you?
Readers reminisce about their first jobs in logistics/supply chain and reveal the lessons they derived.
Good Question: To address the truck driver shortage, should we lower the minimum driver age to 18?
Readers take sides in the debate on whether to lower the minimum age for getting a CDL to 18 as a way to address the truck driver shortage.
Good Question: What's your best time-management tip?
Readers tell us the best ways to manage time with a busy schedule.
If you could speed the development of a supply chain-disrupting technology, what would it be and why?
Readers reveal the technologies they would rev up to boost supply chain efficiency.
GOOD QUESTION | What’s the first thing you would do to solve the warehouse labor shortage?
Readers discuss ways to solve the warehouse labor shortage.
What’s the most fun or interesting part about working in the supply chain?
Readers share the most fun or interesting part about their work in the supply chain.
What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self About Supply Chain Management?
Readers reveal what they would tell their younger selves about supply chain management.
If you were given authority to purchase one product or service for your supply chain/logistics operations, with no budget restrictions, what would you buy?
Readers tell us what they would buy for their supply chain if budget were not a consideration.
GOOD QUESTION | What's the difference between supply chain visibility and transparency?
Readers explore the fine line between supply chain visibility and transparency.
GOOD QUESTION | What is the best business book you ever read and why?
Readers share the business books that have shaped their way of thinking and helped them succeed in the world of supply chain.
GOOD QUESTION | What is the best piece of leadership advice you ever received?
Readers share the leadership insights that have had the biggest impact on them.
What would you put in a logistics time capsule for people to open 50 years from now?
Readers share the logistics mementos and paraphernalia they would preserve in a time capsule for people to open in the year 2067.
What's the most interesting or unusual supply chain problem you've solved?
Readers share unexpected supply chain challenges and how they overcame them.
GOOD QUESTION | What’s the most important question you should ask a potential 3PL partner?
Shippers share the most probing and effective questions to ask potential 3PL partners.
Do you think self-driving trucks will affect the supply chain in the next two years? How so?
Readers consider the near-term prospects of self-driving trucks in the supply chain.
GOOD QUESTION | How will the Internet of Things affect the supply chain?
Readers share their IoT forecast on the supply chain.
GOOD QUESTION | What movie/TV show/song title best describes your job?
Readers pick the song/movie/TV show title that best describes their job.
GOOD QUESTION | What’s your supply chain resolution for 2017?
Readers reveal the issues that could disrupt the supply chain…as well as their sleep.
GOOD QUESTION | What logistics concerns keep you up at night?
Readers reveal the issues that could disrupt the supply chain…as well as their sleep.
GOOD QUESTION | When choosing a carrier/supplier, what’s more important: cost or customer service?
Readers choose between cost and customer service as the most important selection criterion for a carrier or supplier.
GOOD QUESTION | What disruptive innovation will have the greatest impact on the supply chain?
Readers weigh in and pick the disruptive innovation that will rock supply chains.
GOOD QUESTION | How would you define a 4PL?
Readers weigh in and give the 411 on “4PL.”
GOOD QUESTION | Has supply chain impatience gotten out of hand?
Readers weigh in on the August question: Has supply chain impatience gotten out of hand?
GOOD QUESTION | How would you describe your job to a five-year-old?
Logistics professionals explain their jobs in terms a hypothetical five-year-old would appreciate.
GOOD QUESTION | What are the characteristics of a great supply chain?
Readers weigh in on the characteristics of a great supply chain.
Drones in last-mile logistics: hype or help?
Readers weigh in on the future of drones in last-mile logistics.
What hobbies/activities make you better at supply chain and logistics management?
Readers weigh in on what hobbies make them better at supply chain and logistics management.
What Fictional Character Would Make a Great Logistician?
Inbound Logistics asks readers what fictional character would make a great logistician.
What's the first thing you would do to address the truck driver shortage?
Readers weigh in on how to address the truck driver shortage.
Who’s more important—your customers or your employees?
Inbound Logistics weigh in on whether their customers or their employees are more important to their supply chain business
Is Logistics Boring?
Readers explain why this adjective does not apply.
What is the Difference Between Logistics and Supply Chain?
Readers weigh in on this month's question: What's the difference between logistics and supply chain?
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