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Inventory is Everything with Jeff Flowers

The Logistics of Logistics

Quickly moving towards his true passion of operations, Jeff spent 2006-2016 in various roles with the nation’s largest building products Distributor, BlueLinx. In 2016, Jeff partnered with Franklin Young to purchase PTI Security, a leader in Physical Access Control and with support from Source Capital, an Atlanta based Private Equity firm.

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Data Privacy Day 2024

Enterra Insights

Data Privacy Day (initially Data Protection Day) was initiated in 2006 by the Council of Europe. This data ranges from your interests and purchases to your online behaviors, and it is collected by websites, apps, devices, services, and companies all around the globe. Provide tools for people to manage their privacy. Manageable.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, when I was a Gartner analyst and technology providers would provoke me to write a Magic Quadrant on visibility solutions, I would laugh. In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. These sources while functional are difficult to connect.

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

Procurement analytics, which supports decision making in procurement management, typically handles problems and decisions that are related to cost reduction, supplier management, cost modeling, procurement-led innovation, market strategies, supply chain risk, and stakeholder value improvement (Handfield, Jeong, and Choi 2019).

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How to Choose The Right Ecommerce Platform for Wholesale

Unleashed

So we’ve put together a practical guide to the software you’ll need – including 11 essential questions to ask when you’re choosing a platform. Purchases made through wholesale eCommerce platforms are generally for large unit numbers – and often for products bought before – and will therefore be highly transactional. In the U.S.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. A move that led to international concerns around supply security and the political motivation behind China’s export restrictions. The result?

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Big Tech and Auto Battle for the World’s Cobalt Resources

Elementum

In 2006, lithium-ion batteries consumed only 20% of the global cobalt supply. Traditionally, companies like Apple haven’t purchased the metal directly from mines, but through brokers like China’s Congo Dong Fang Mining. Tesla: Hope for a Sustainable Solution. Ten years later, that number has more than doubled.