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Three Times Tom Hanks Was Faster Than Your Supply Chain (Spoiler Alert)

Aera Technology

Like Hanks’ efforts to build a raft to take him home, pharmaceutical companies start with a set of raw materials, which through research, trial and error create something purposeful. manufacturing plants, delivery vessels, cargo holdings, inventories, retail distribution networks), things go well.

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Tesla and the Future of the Trucking Industry

Elementum

The Semi, set to be unveiled in 2017, is a large electric-powered, long-haul trucking vehicle that Musk says will “deliver a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo transport, while increasing safety and making it really fun to operate.”. from 2004 to 2014, with HCVs comprising 67% of market share. Overview of Trucking in the U.S.

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Putting the WoW! Into Service Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Literature Review In 1985, Parasuraman, Zeithaml & Berry of Texas A&M University published a paper called " A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research ". Since then, SERVQUAL has become a building block of the service research from the marketing perspective.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

I am judge of the IATA Air Cargo Innovation Awards and the Automotive Logistics Awards Europe. As director and head of supply chain and transport industries at the World Economic Forum in New York and Geneva, I was facilitating groundbreaking research in supply chain and logistics innovation. In 2019, digitization got some traction.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Transportfolio

However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. New Gartner research shows that only 21% of supply chain organizations believe they have a highly resilient network today*. Superstorm Sandy was uniquely catastrophic.