There’s a clock that regulates supply chains, and lately it is losing time, not just by a beat, but hours and days. That throws off sales forecasts and orders, lengthens transit times, and leads to missed deliveries and a pervasive imbalance in assets, people, and goods throughout the economy. The cost of this loss of time in supply chains is likely huge, and a major factor behind higher transportation prices that have stunned US shippers. The reason the supply chain clock is out of beat isn’t hard to find. The US electronic logging device (ELD) mandate knocked it out of kilter.
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