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Labor Strike Targeting U.S. Automakers- Update Five

Supply Chain Matters

Upwards of 4,000 UAW workers at Volvo’s Mack truck manufacturing facilities in Florida, Maryland and Pennsylvania went on strike after rejecting a tentative five year contract agreement that included a reported 19 percent wage increase. Parallel Developments Other parallel developments have occurred since our last update.

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Origin of Logistics & Supply Chain Revealed! - SupplyChainOpz

Supply Chain Opz

Larson et al 2007 indicated that, based on a literature review, there are 4 types of interaction as below, Reproduced from Larson et al 2007. (1) This implies that the army relied on "replenishment progress (process). 4) Relationship Between 2 Terms. The difference between 2 terms has been very confusing for practitioners.

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The Knichel Logistics Story with Kristy Knichel

The Logistics of Logistics

Since taking over as president of her company, Knichel Logistics , in 2007, Kristy has been the driving force behind their yearly growth and reputation as one of the top service providers within the IMC community growing her business to 84 million. About Kristy Knichel. About Knichel Logistics.

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Sharing Tribal Knowledge

Enterra Insights

The late Randolph “Randy” Frederick Pausch was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He then co-authored a book called The Last Lecture on the same theme, which became a New York Times best-seller.

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Queuing Theory – Behavioral Impact of Dedicated Lines

Operations and Supply Chain Management

In the original experiment , the researchers looked at patient wait times and length of stay in the emergency department of a California hospital from 2007 to 2010. Now new research from a member of the same team explores why this is so—and where multiple lines or single lines make the most sense. What wasn’t clear was why.

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Four Strategies To Deploy As Supply Chain Hits Main Street

Supply Chain Shaman

My local Pennsylvania town’s recycling organization no longer accepts cardboard or glass. When the recession of 2019-2020 happens, the whiplash will be higher than the 2007 recession. Supply chain is making headline news as companies struggle to redefine supply chain flows with the increased friction for border crossings.