FLOW Adds JohnDeere, Ace Hardware to Its Roster

It’s great news for the customers that FLOW adds JohnDeere. JohnDeere has joined the Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) program, which is run by the U.S. Department of Transportation. They shared an update on Linkedin, showing how serious John Deere is about improving how they handle and track their products. It’s good for customers that they can easily get their items quickly without any issues.  John Deere is now part of a group that includes other big companies like Ace Hardware and BJ’s Wholesale Club, bringing the total members to 80. Which shows that big companies are now concerned more and more towards their customers’ benefits. 

Also the Home Depot and True Value give importance to the customer’s benefit, that is how to reduce the delays and make it easier that where the cargo is. 

“It’s not a project to tell you what’s already occurred, but it’s a project that tells you where the bottlenecks are going to occur,” Jennifer McNeill, SVP of supply chain operations at True Value, told Supply Chain Dive in a May interview.

The importance of these programs really felt during the pandemic when many shipping companies had delays due to crowded ports and not enough staff. The trouble came from not having enough information about where containers were and how much stuff was coming into the ports, which showed big problems in how supply chains were managed. So, to fix these issues White House started FLOW to help share information betterly.

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