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Autonomous Planning in Supply Chain: 4 Must-Haves for Next-Generation Platforms

Logistics Viewpoints

When Amazon launched same-day delivery in 2009, it opened to a new generation of retail business. She is one of the contributing authors in the Oxford Handbook of Price Management and has been a guest lecturer in San Francisco State and Columbia University business school on multiple occasions. Yosun holds B.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 28 – February 3)

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Earlier this week, San Francisco-based vertical farming company Plenty Unlimited Inc. UPS is preparing for a slowdown in global delivery volumes as it advised that annual revenue could decline for the first time since 2009. announced it had secured its largest investment to date. billion in 2023, down from $100.3

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This Week in Logistics News (September 26-30, 2016)

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Global Container Volume on Track for Worst Year Since 2009 (WSJ – sub. Moving from trucking to ocean transportation, San Francisco startup Flexport Inc. Elementum Expands Supply Chain Management Suite with New Inventory App Powered by World’s Product Graph™. raised $65 million in venture capital to expand its U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 30 – December 4, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Back in January 2014, I spoke with one of Oz Development’s customers, Jordan Kivelstadt, founder and CEO of Free Flow Wines , a pioneer in the “wine on tap” movement that Jordan and his partner launched in 2009. Well, as Alexander Chee reports in a long piece in the Wall Street Journal , “it is quickly and quietly becoming a reality.”

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5 Top Online Courses For Financial Modeling!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Udemy was created in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. Paid courses include teacher Q&As and direct messaging, as well as a certificate of completion. These priced courses are usually approximately $99. University of Cape Town Financial Modeling and Analysis.

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New Year’s Resolutions for 2018: What’s Your Personal Challenge?

Talking Logistics

A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting article highlighting Max Deutsch, a 24-year-old entrepreneur from San Francisco “who challenged himself to a series of monthly tasks that were ambitious bordering on absurd.” Beyond work, did you set up any personal challenges for yourself?

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The Exception to the Rule

BlueYonder

About three months in, I discovered Twitter (2009) and searching ‘SunTrust.’ So I sold everything and drove to San Francisco. While I loved teaching, I was working three jobs just to pay the bills so I went back to corporate life as a trainer. I moved to SunTrust in Atlanta to teach bank branches how to recognize check fraud.