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How the UAW Strike is Shaking Up the Automotive Supply Chain

Resilinc

Opened in 2006, this plant is responsible for building the Buick Enclave and the Chevrolet Traverse. Two Detroit auto suppliers that manufacture shifts, pinions, gears, and other parts for the Big Three have filed notices of potential layoffs with the state of Michigan. GM’s Lancing Delta Township, conversely, is GM’s newest US plant.

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7 Best Supply Chain Books of All Time

Supply Chain Opz

Therefore, the challenge to establish the ranking method is to find a more economical data source and the unbiased metrics. In short, Nielsen provides the point of sales data from various retail outlets and gross sales quantity will be summarized. Anyway, the access to this database costs an arm and a leg. References - Moed, H.

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

GlobalTranz

According to our USMTO data the 2003 recession really started in 2001 and didn’t really end until 2005 or even 2006. Midwestern industry (particularly Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee) is still the largest consumer of machine tools and manufacturing technology. It was, however, slower in and slower out.

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Using Green Patents to Create a More Sustainable Business

EcoVadis

The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI), which has been tracking green patent trends since 2002, has reported upward trends of green patents in economies around the world , such as Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, as well as in the United States, including in Michigan, California, and Texas. Source: CEPGI.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

In 2006, Amazon ( AMZN ) started a revolution. Today, we’re predominantly leveraging Databricks in a couple of key ways: first, the creation of highly performant and reliable data pipelines for ingestion and data transformation at large Second,we’re utilizing Delta Lake, which allows us to provide a single source of truth for our data.”.