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Hyper-Collaboration in Life Sciences Creates Supply Chain Opportunities

Logility

The statistics are telling: Approximately 9,000 new biopharma R&D partnerships were formed between 2005 and 2014 at an annual growth rate of four percent during that 10-year period.

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The Governance of Global Value Chains

SCM Research

Gereffi, Humphrey and Sturgeon (2005) take a transaction-based political economy perspective to explain The Governance of Global Value Chains. Likewise, Ponte and Sturgeon (2014) in their recent article that attempts to draw together GVC theory lacks any citation to the SCM literature. Gereffi, G., Humphrey, J., & Sturgeon, T.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 29 – October 3, 2014)

Talking Logistics

North American Freight Numbers July 2014. One of the early pioneers of software-as-a-service (SaaS) transportation management systems (TMS) was Nistevo, which was acquired by Sterling Commerce in May 2006 (Sterling Commerce had become an AT&T company in late 2005). Song of the Week: “Ana Ng” by They Might Be Giants.

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Supply Chains By the Numbers

Supply Chain Shaman

Intellectually, while I will know that year has changed, I will screw-up time, and time, again by writing 2014 on documents for many, many months. They first appeared on the scene in 2005. … this is the last blog of 2014. Tomorrow starts a new year. It will take me awhile to adjust. There was no CSCO in the 1980s or 1990s.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Cardwell, 2014). 2014, July 30). Companies are starting to take actions and produce materials that intend to be reliable, energy-efficient with no or lesser waste which benefits companies in many ways as it will have an impact on customers, shareholders, and the recognition of the company in the marketplace. Vishal Gupta, 2013).

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Where Do We Go From Here? Taking a Look at the 2016 State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

percent annually between 2010 and 2014. trillion in 2014. While inventories had steadily grown since 2005 at 5-percent annually, growth of inventories in 2015 flattened out. Slow Growth Rate and Low Percentage of GDP. Yet, the CAGR of 2015 fell by 2 percent. As a result, logistics in the U.S. made up only 7.85