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The FreightVana Story with Shannon Breen

The Logistics of Logistics

With an educational and professional background in finance, Shannon joined the logistics industry in 2012 with Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, Arizona.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012. The result?

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Committed to the Supply Chain Index

Supply Chain Insights

But, with the help of the operations research team at Arizona State University (ASU), we now think that we have it right. The Supply Chain Index measures a company’s corporate performance on three dimensions for the period of 2006-2012. As a result, the Index looks at progression over the period of 2006-2012. Insightful.

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MHI Annual Conference: Drone Applications in Supply Chain Beyond Package Delivery

PINC

Use of drones for package delivery has received a lot of attention ever since Jeff Bezos unveiled a video of an Amazon drone dropping off a package via drone on a 60 Minutes broadcast in 2012, but other applications in the supply chain are likely to emerge first.

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Mush

Supply Chain Shaman

This culminated over the course of the last four months into a methodology that we developed along with the Operations Research team at Arizona State University. We will be plotting their progress for the period of 2006-2012. For the last three years, we have been plotting corporate financial data and studying the trends.

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What About the Supply Chain Index?

Supply Chain Shaman

We used the period of 2006 to 2012 to build the model and we used the formula to attempt to predict 2013. This week, I am finalizing an agreement with Arizona State University to fund a PHD student in statistics under the guidance of George Runger to try to finish the work. The result is outlined in figure 1. However, we are not done.

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The Coffee Pot Conversation That Will Not Happen

Supply Chain Shaman

Initially, I worked with Arizona State statistics professors and graduate students to correlate market factors to 2006-2012 data.) I began analyzing correlations of groups of metrics to market capitalization and found that the most significant correlation was between market capitalization and growth.

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