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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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Biogen Idec designs the innovation supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

Joydeep Ganguly from Biogen Ide c spoke in my Supply Chain Relationships class last week, and shared his insights on how Biogen’s supply chain evolved. Supply chain has a big focus on the currency of today’s theories being implemented here. The supply chain is NOT nimble and people struggle.

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

NC State SCRC

The following is a guest blog from Craig Lukasik , one of my former MBA students from the Poole College of Management’s supply chain program. Supply Chain Metrics!?!? – Why should managers who work outside of “Supply Chain” care about this study? Thanks Craig!

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An Economic Primer and Forecast from Professor Mike Walden

NC State SCRC

Housing prices also had a boom, which ran its course, and a dramatic drop-off on housing prices, which dropped by one third after doubling between 2006-2010. But what about North Carolina? My own comment: this is a good time to get a degree in supply chain management! 2.4%, unemployment will remain at 4.4-4.5%,