Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Background The Council of Supply Chain Resilience met for the first time this month. What is supply chain resilience? The reason?

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Nick has significant experience and expertise in transportation and logistics especially truckload shipping. Nick left TQL to join FourKites, a real-time visibility platform for supply chain logistics companies. Transloop has locations in Chicago, IL, and Nashville, TN. About Transloop. About Turvo.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This Black Friday Shawn Simms was first in line at Best Buy in Nashville, TN to bag a Thanksgiving bargain – a Toshiba HDTV for $149.99. COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. Transportation ’s share of global emissions: 14%.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 29, 2016

Lots of supply chain and logistics news to get to this week, especially on the the technology front, so let’s go straight to it. JDA Empowers Customers to Transform their Supply Chains with New End-to-End Capabilities. JDA Empowers Customers to Transform their Supply Chains with New End-to-End Capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

Thanks for reading Rethinking supply chains! This collaboration helps carriers plan capacity needs, temporary seasonal labor requirements, third-party transportation purchases, and more down to the zip code level. Retailers with store-front will push this option and curbside pickups to offset high shipping costs.

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Proxima

MARCH 20, 2020

As I sit at my home in Nashville, TN, observing the aftermath of the recent tornados while playing witness to daily changes in the world, I had a thought. Before more bottles of hand sanitizer can be made, the plastic bottles, packaging, labels, and raw materials will need to be transported. Your carriers and brokers are your ships.

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