Comments on: Can’t Drive 55 http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/03/17/cant-drive-55/ Power Profitable Business Communities™ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Craig Dunham http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/03/17/cant-drive-55/#comment-1062 Craig Dunham Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:10:02 +0000 http://inovis.wordpress.com/?p=483#comment-1062 Just as the fuel crisis of the early 70s brought about changes in the way we do things (as a nation and as citizens and as businesses), so will we have to change the way we do things now - thirty years later.... Advancements in the efficiencies of trucks and other forms of transportation have been made in the past 30 years, and it's time for this to happen again. Whether we (as businesses) change our practices to change our lead times and in-transit times or we change our practices to order more and keep a higher inventory cost - that remains to be seen. It could be that many large retailers, for example, may change the way that they move their goods from location to location - by either utilizing more common carriers and drop shipping directly to their stores (via UPS or FedEx or similar) or by establishing more warehouses and distribution centers in further reaches of the country, eliminating and/or cutting down on their own internal transportation costs. Just as the fuel crisis of the early 70s brought about changes in the way we do things (as a nation and as citizens and as businesses), so will we have to change the way we do things now – thirty years later….

Advancements in the efficiencies of trucks and other forms of transportation have been made in the past 30 years, and it’s time for this to happen again. Whether we (as businesses) change our practices to change our lead times and in-transit times or we change our practices to order more and keep a higher inventory cost – that remains to be seen.

It could be that many large retailers, for example, may change the way that they move their goods from location to location – by either utilizing more common carriers and drop shipping directly to their stores (via UPS or FedEx or similar) or by establishing more warehouses and distribution centers in further reaches of the country, eliminating and/or cutting down on their own internal transportation costs.

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