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Scaling a FreightTech Business with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

Founded in 2016, and located in Fort Wayne, IN, Princeton TMX provides an intuitive user experience, configured to meet specific business requirements and streamline, automate, and optimize all modes of transportation. In 2001, he completed a two-year Six Sigma certification program with General Electric and is a GE certified Black Belt.

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Understanding their distinction can help you ensure the coordination between the responsible teams and adopt the right strategies for improving both sourcing and procurement. Procurement. Contains fewer steps.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. I worked with the organization for a year and scheduled a meeting with Lucas to explain that his policies were the primary issue. We started the conversation with sourcing. His response?

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. I worked with the organization for a year and scheduled a meeting with Lucas to explain that his policies were the primary issue. We started the conversation with sourcing. His response?

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How to Find Business Opportunities Amid the Coronavirus Supply Chain Crisis

ToolsGroup

Apple launched the iPod in 2001 during the dot.com bubble. Many people don’t shop around once they have found a reliable source. You can meet the demand of your customers better and gain ongoing goodwill and market share. Microsoft launched in 1975, a time of great stagnation, inflation and unemployment.

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Boeing 737 MAX Door Plug Incident- Expanding Implications

Supply Chain Matters

The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer. Boeing’s demands for lower prices left Spirit strapped for cash as managers panicked over meeting increasingly demanding deadlines.” Spirit and Boeing battled over costs, quality and the pace of production.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Examples include alternate sourcing, bill of material changes or alternate modes/routing between the planning, procurement and transportation.) Investors moaned. (The