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The Mary Kay Supply Chain with Michael Ringsdorf

The Logistics of Logistics

Mike Ringsdorf is the Vice President Transportation & Logistics at Mary Kay Global, a cosmetics company based in Texas. In the podcast interview, Mike and Joe discuss what it takes to manufacture Mary Kay products and distribute it to millions of Mary Kay Beauty Consultants worldwide. Learn More About The Mary Kay Supply Chain.

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North American Building Materials Leader Cornerstone Building Brands Chooses ToolsGroup and River Logic’s Technology

ToolsGroup

Unique Partnership Delivers an End-to-End Network Optimization Solution to Seamlessly Integrate Supply Chain Design, Manufacturing Footprint and Probabilistic Planning and Execution for Leading Building Materials Manufacturer. Two of Cornerstone Building Brands’ business units — Aperture Solutions – U.S., Book a meeting.

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The Big Texas Chemical Freeze Raises Issues on Resiliency of the Petrochemical Supply Chain

NC State SCRC

Today’s Wall Street Journal article on the impact of the Texas winter storm on the petrochemical industry highlights many of the challenges that exist with this supply chain, that has been overlooked for perhaps too long. ” Discussions with experts on the Gulf Coast have also shared the challenges faced in this region.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Transporting parts and materials to assembly lines and between manufacturing cells is one of the industry’s most complex and inefficient tasks, often resulting in production bottlenecks, Rockwell Automation noted. The Texas grocer said it intends to open an unspecified number of additional facilities across the state by the end of next year.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s border-security crackdown is clogging up commercial crossings, leaving at least 19,000 trucks loaded with $1.9 The inspections were halted a week later after Texas officials said they’d reached security agreements with their Mexican state counterparts across the border. Maersk joins FedEx Corp.,

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The 2022 Chlorine Shortage: Another Year of Poolmageddon

ToolsGroup

A combo of pandemic-related increased demand, and the tragic destruction of a key chlorine manufacturer have led to 2022’s swimming pool chlorine shortage. Rockwall, Texas-based Texas Pool Professionals tackled the shortage by stockpiling chlorine tablets and hunting down alternative chemicals for their customers.

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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

To demonstrate that classic (single time series demand input) optimization and stochastic (multiple time series demand input) optimization can yield substantially different results, we will analyze a network of a company A that has four manufacturing plants that need to service demand in every mainland US state.