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This Week in Logistics News (June 23-27, 2014)

Talking Logistics

So it gives me great pleasure to say, that with the next pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, the NBA selects Isaiah Austin from Baylor University.”. In other news… Supply Chain Risk Management Now a Priority for Most Businesses ( Accenture ). April 2014 North American Freight Numbers.

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What does increasing regulatory oversight mean for the pharma supply chain?

The Network Effect

Due to more complex supply chains, policy makers worldwide are enforcing stricter regulations for manufacturing and logistics. Within a decade, the number of FDA warning letters sent to medical device manufacturers has increased threefold, from 61 letters in 2002 to 181 in 2012 (EC A 2012). appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.

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Distribution Outlook: 2018

NFI Industries

In the third quarter of 2017, Prologis reported that consumer activity reached its highest level since 2014 1. Warehouses today have doubled in size compared to 2002; however, even with larger distribution centers (DCs), the distribution market.

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Why the West Coast Ports Labor Dispute Matters to Retailers

The Network Effect

Director, Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium. Shippers still bear the scars from the disastrous 2002 work stoppage and have countermeasures in-place to avoid major disruption. By Chris Ferrell. Retailers are paying close attention to labor disputes threatening to bring a stop to imports coming in to West Coast ports.

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Amazon Takes On the Fashion Supply Chain

Elementum

It has been selling apparel since 2002, and has slowly been making further in-roads to the fashion industry. It listed 30 million items in its fashion division at the end of 2015, a 91% increase from 2014. Amazon is not new to fashion. In fact, it has acquired fashion sites such as ShopBop, MyHabit and East Dane.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. The GT Nexus platform is an important supply chain asset connecting with over 25,000 trading partners globally.