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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.) Why do we spend four months doing this?

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A Boomerang Opportunity

BlueYonder

My family was in Arizona. I worked at Nordstrom for 16 years in Oregon and Washington, then helped them open locations in Texas and Arizona. By that point, I didn’t want to leave Arizona, but every promotion opportunity would move me north. You joined JDA from a retail background – what brought you to JDA?

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization. The best example of a clear strategy I experienced was Annette Clayton’s transformation of Schneider Electric in 2004. Analytics Deployment.

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A Boomerang Opportunity

BlueYonder

My family was in Arizona. I worked at Nordstrom for 16 years in Oregon and Washington, then helped them open locations in Texas and Arizona. By that point, I didn’t want to leave Arizona, but every promotion opportunity would move me north. You joined JDA from a retail background – what brought you to JDA?

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

He was the hero of the curse-reversing 2004 team that came back from a 3-0 deficit to the Yankees in the ALCS with a walk-off homer and another walk-off single. Some of these workers come from Mexico daily to jobs in places like Arizona and California for the production of leafy greens at this time of year.

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Hurricane Irma's Chemical Fallout Could Be Worse than Harvey's

Material Handling & Logistics

But an analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, showed that the Houston area’s hundreds of refineries and petrochemical operations released almost 1 million pounds of air pollutants in Harvey-related spills and flares, including benzene, sulfur dioxide, toluene, and xylene.