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Two Important Questions About the Future of Freight Moves

Talking Logistics

The projections are from BTS’ and FHWA’s latest version of the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) , “which integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation.”. trillion in 2015).

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

source: tradingeconomics.com. source: thebalance.com. The law of supply and demand, coupled with other environmental and political factors, have led to two months of inflation that are higher than we have seen in 30 years (see table below). ?. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation?

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Using Big Data to Drive Manufacturing Sales: 3 Big Takeaways from the USMTO Reports

GlobalTranz

The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders data report is compiled by AMT on a monthly basis and is based on the totals of actual data reported by companies participating in the USMTO program (about 200 as of 2013). At the trough of the recessions in 2003 and 2009, only $100 million worth of equipment was being purchased.

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Ten Best Retailers at Handling Dangerous Chemicals

Material Handling & Logistics

Since 2003, Apple has reduced or eliminated chemicals of concern from products, including lead, arsenic, brominated flame retardants, and PVC/phthalates from certain components. Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. 7aeefd7d-0b63-4ccd-9902-e48cec60e6d4. Content Summary: Grade: A.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, 32% of companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the same organization, and the gaps in alignment between operations and commercial teams are large. In 2003, short-term forecasting approach using pattern recognition was invented by Terra Technology to replace rules-based consumption. It was not an ideal design.

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Industry 3.X and TPM deciphered

KEPLER Consulting

This remains very important because from the beginning of the digital data creation until 2003, there were 5 exabytes of information created and now the same amount of information is created every two days. Givehchi, Tresk and Jasperneite, 2013). Learned (Muehlhauser, 2013). Sources : Boud, A. 2013, September 15).

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Dealing with Big Data

Enterra Insights

From the earliest starting point of time until 2003,” observes Priya Dialani ( @priyadialani ), founder of Les Fleurs, “the whole world just had five billion gigabytes of data. By 2013, this volume was created every 10 minutes.”[1] Because data is being generated at rate that would astonish previous generations.

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