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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

Those same words were said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. The serious and negative impacts this dispute left on the economy demonstrates why we cannot let this happen again.”.

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What Steph Curry and LeBron James Can Teach Us About Innovation

GlobalTranz

“You have to see this kid from Davidson,” said my friends who had brought me to a small college gym in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 2008, as I watched a midseason college basketball game of little importance. Louis Rams, dubbed the Greatest Show on Turf, demonstrated that an offense need not establish the run before throwing.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

The two primary manufacturing sites are located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Irmo, South Carolina. Slowly the company built a supporting supply chain to support 400 retail stores by 2002. The process design started with the customer and then mapped back to manufacturing and transportation.