There's a shift happening in the parcel market in favor of shippers, says Robyn Meyer, senior vice president of parcel strategy and solutions with Transportation Insight.

Professor Missy Cummings explained the limitations of artificial intelligence, warning, “There’s so much hype out there; it’s your job as supply chain executives to understand what’s real and what’s not.”

Josh Dunham, chief executive officer of Reveel, describes four best practices that parcel shippers are employing in their relationships with carriers today.

While demand has dropped since then, the innovations remain, says Jakki Krage Strako, chief commerce and business solutions officer with the U.S. Postal Service.

Adopting a technology-driven approach to sustainability offers more advantages than tighter regulations that disproportionately benefit large-scale corporations and drive up prices.

UPS said in August that the heated discussions caused about 1.2 million packages per day of lost volume — either directly to competitors or new business that didn’t occur.

The financial collapse of Yellow, the third-largest less-than-truckload carrier in the U.S., will incur some challenges in the transportation world that people might not have considered.

There is an optimal opportunity to improve efficiencies by streamlining store operations and pickup experience to maximize time serving customers.

The package carrier took an extra hit last quarter from its contract talks with the Teamsters union, which UPS says resulted in $1 billion in lost revenue.

The pay is above industry standards, but enthusiastic UPS-wannabes should know that the path to a coveted driving position is far from a smooth ride.