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Two Important Questions About the Future of Freight Moves

Talking Logistics

Meanwhile, the 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Report Card for America’s Infrastructure gives roads a D grade — with other transportation infrastructure not doing much better (bridges earned a C+, ports a C, inland waterways a D-, and rail a C+).

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Labor Strike Targeting U.S. Automakers- Update Five

Supply Chain Matters

On Wednesday, the labor union surprised Ford Motor with the announcement that 8,700 assembly line workers at Ford ’s largest assembly plant located in Kentucky, and reportedly producer of the automaker’s most profitable vehicles, would not report for the evening work shift.

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Next Level Apparel® Takes its Demand and Inventory Planning to the Next Level with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform

Logility

Founded in 2003, Next Level Apparel is a design innovator, industry leader and top supplier of premium blank apparel. s current Form 10-K and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the SEC. About Next Level Apparel. For more information, contact: Kevin Liu, American Software, Inc., (626)

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Walmart again Raises Chargeback Stakes

Enterra Insights

Reporting on this development, Jennifer Smith ( @jensmithWSJ ) and Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) write, “Looking to cut inventory while meeting e-commerce demands, the retailer wants more of the goods it orders delivered on time and in full. Walmart recently made headlines when it toughened delivery demands for its suppliers.

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

Walmart’s RFID journey Walmart announced in 2003 that its top 100 suppliers must tag their pallets and cases starting by 2005. Even so, businesses have eyed RFID for many years. If there were ever a time to invest in the technology, it is now. To understand why, we need to investigate the past. However, Walmart would later drop the mandate.

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods. China ’ s economy has grown in leaps and bounds from roughly 4% of world GDP in 2003 to 1 6% today.

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E2open Acquires Zyme: A Bridge Too Far?

Supply Chain Shaman

The company was one of a handful of exchanges to survive the market hype 2000-2003 period. As shown in Figure 1, approximately 50% of procurement buyers report through supply chain organizations. Reporting Relationships Within the Supply Chain. The original platform technologies were Ariba and i2 Technologies.