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Rail 101 with Ian Jefferies

The Logistics of Logistics

Ian is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) which is the world’s leading railroad policy, research, standard setting, and technology organization that focuses on the safety and productivity of the U.S. From 2009 to 2013, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S.

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Mexico Transportation Risk with Mark Vickers

The Logistics of Logistics

Business Administration, The Ohio State University About Reliance Partners Founded in 2009, Reliance Partners is the fastest growing (organic) insurance agency in the United States with premiums having grown from $95 million in 2018 to nearly $500 million today. Mark earned a B.S.,

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Government’s effective Business Continuity support and pandemic-related crisis management , effective socio-economic policy measures ,and Job Support schemes ,underpinned by multiple Crisis Budgets, helped to stabilise the crisis situation. Supply Chain Resilience became an instant Buzz word amongst Policy makers and Industry.

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

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Gartner research shows that companies that continued to increase earnings while others declined in 2009 and 2010 were those that were able to keep their foot on the gas through the downturn because they had planned responses in advance. You can model alternative flows and networks while guaranteeing service policies to customers.

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Will Bitcoin Replace Fiat Money?

Supply Chain Game Changer

The advantage for the government to appreciate the growth in Bitcoin is the tax policy through which they can make maximum revenue. Bitcoin was developed in 2009, and since then, it has gained rapid growth with popularity and other essential utility to serve the purpose of purchase and sale.

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Period of high financial risk to suppliers on the horizon

Resilinc

In the 2008-2009 recession, export-dependent countries in Asia suffered a 15% drop in GDP in Q4 2008 due to their dependence on export markets, according to IMF analyses. growth in 2009 thanks to its enormous financial stimulus package). If a recession takes hold, count on those impacts on supplier firms to continue and intensify.

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Supply Chain Optimization for Consumer Packaged Goods Inventory

Logility

Between 2000 and 2009, the average profit for this industry grew by over 10% year on year, but over the next decade, annual profit growth fell to just 3.2%. Reporting for policy planning. Then, they should look at how they can streamline their inventory policies. Inventory management. Optimal inventory determinations.

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