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Home » Managing Freight in a Challenging Economy

Managing Freight in a Challenging Economy

March 12, 2010
Dan Goodwill, President, Dan Goodwill & Associates, Inc.

The economic crisis has provided shippers a great opportunity to step back and rethink their logistics and supply chain operations to see where they can pull costs out of the system and become more efficient, says consultant Dan Goodwill. "Everyone knows that beating up on carriers to bring costs down can't go on forever." [Run Time (Min:) 8:18]

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