Shipper fury as spot rates soar - and box lines ignore contracts
The sense of genuine anger amongst North European shippers and freight forwarders was palpable this ...
Upstream and downstream supply chain strains are provoking unprecedented actions, of which we have read and talked about a lot lately.
And it was Friday last week that a procurement maestro from The Coca-Cola Company* (KO) received unanimous feedback in our marketplace.
(*Coca-Cola Cross Enterprise Procurement Group, aka CEPG)
A bit of numb, straight, one-off reporting duties today.
Alan Smith, procurement director at KO (near-$230bn market cap) wrote on LinkedIn (just one of his several remarks and highly valuable nuggets worth following; emphasis in bold added):
“When ...
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