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This Week in Logistics News (March 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

business inventories flat, inventory-to-sales ratio highest since 2009 (Reuters). Institute for Supply Management data indicated that growth in production, orders, and inventory slowed in January…January 2015 freight shipments were up 5.6 percent from January 2014. percent over February 2014. percent in December.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

The editorial team at Analytics Insight notes, “The technological revolution that is currently happening in the agricultural sector became possible, among other things, due to big data. Collecting and analyzing big data can not only improve the productivity of individual farms but also help halt a global food crisis. revolution.

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Garmaise Appointed Dean of Full-Time MBA Program - UCLA.

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014. Ainslie Named Dean of University of Rochester’s Simon Business School » 05/02/2014. UCLA Anderson Professor of Finance Mark Garmaise has been named dean of the Full-time MBA program, effective July 1, 2014. December 2013. November 2013.

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Q&A on the Supply Chains to Admire

Supply Chain Insights

Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? The data analyzed to compile the Supply Chains to Admire 2014 report came from publicly-available information from balance sheets and income statements. As a result, you will not find 3M or GE in the data.

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. When we do these types of analysis, we look back at the data as far as we can reach (Y chart data is available only back to 2006 in a reliable form) and then we look at the period of 2006-2014 and the more recent period of 2011-2014. What does this mean?

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Relaunching Your Supply Chain for the Digitial Age

TPSynergy

Although most aspects of daily work have shifted online, one major activity has stayed grounded in the 1970s: data entry. the vast majority of data entry for tasks like orders and purchases are still done via pen and paper. While this may seem simple, there’s a lot of reasons to switch to a digital data entry system.

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. For related commentary, see Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014. For related commentary, see: Notable Quote: C.H.