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Texas: It Ain’t Bragging, If It’s True with Jason Giulietti

The Logistics of Logistics

The Greater San Marcos Partnership (GSMP) was founded in 2010 by regional stakeholders with a commitment to community advancement and a focused objective: creating economic diversity and strength through ethical, proactive and strategic professional economic development. About the Greater San Marcos Partnership.

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Introduction to… Planning for the Inevitable: The Role of the Federal Supply Chain in Preparing for National Emergencies

NC State SCRC

March 2023 Reflecting on the year 2010! Back in 2010, Professor Rob Handfield produced a report titled ‘Planning for the Inevitable: The Role of the Federal Supply Chain in Preparing for National Emergencies’ on behalf of the IBM Center for The Business of Government. Keep them coming! Do you remember reading this?

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The Battle for Supply Chain Talent

Logility

Over the last few years I have heard a reoccurring theme from many supply chain professionals, “there is a war for talent being waged.” ” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the area of demand and supply chain planning. The global supply chain is a $25+ trillion per year industry.

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Supply Chain Talk: Do Numbers Tell the Full Story?

Arkieva

At first glance, supply chain metrics may seem to tell you a lot about your current supply chain operations. Between 2009 and 2010 during the economic downturn, it was difficult to make sense of the unemployment numbers. percent in Houston. Read Previous: Supply Chain Talk: Are Best Practices Always Best? ].

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West Coast Heats Up for Van Freight

DAT Solutions

Back then, it was a series of winter storms that disrupted supply chains and pushed load-to-truck ratios unusually high for several months. Just two weeks ago, we reported the highest national van load-to-truck ratio ever recorded in DAT Trendlines , which we've published every week since 2010. RISING LANES.

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Renegade Riposte

Supply Chain Shaman

In the supply chain, the questions do not change; but the answers do. Quote from a Supply Chain Leader at a Conference in Europe. Yesterday, Peter Bolstorff, Executive Director, APICS Supply Chain Council, called to discuss the use of the Supply Chain Index by APICS to measure supply chain improvement.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

It has radically transformed supply chains, fundamentally changed domestic and international economies across the world, and changed societies in the process – all the while driving trillions dollars in annual trade. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Significance.

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