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The Big Sigh

Supply Chain Shaman

I hopped on the plane in Baltimore on my way to Atlanta last week. This is post is 502 in a series started in 2012. Always late, I squeezed past a middle-aged man wearing a black mask in the aisle seat and promptly fell asleep nodding my head on the window ledge. I started with, “Tell me about you. What brings you to Atlanta?

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

The Wire is an incredible TV show, following the drug ecosystem in urban Baltimore and the police officers tasked with bringing it into check. And season two is all about the Port of Baltimore. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen (Link). The Wire, Season 2 ( Link ).

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Rock on!

Supply Chain Insights

They deliver pantry supplies to our small office in Baltimore <without charging us shipping> a couple of times a week. It will become an extension of the training that we will launch with the publication of the book Bricks Matter in the fall of 2012. We will keep this research cadence through the rest of 2012.

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Transportation Strategy in a Constrained Infrastructure: 30th SCRC Meeting Kicks Off Today

Supply Chain View from the Field

The expansion of Panama has shifted shipments from West Coast to East Coast, but only Norfolk and Baltimore can handle these larger ships – and this will result in longer berths where will the funding be coming from for these port expansions – and it is something that is happening, but we aren’t sure how to handle it.

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Greg Javor: “Our mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit”

Supply Chain Movement

After four years in global logistics he was posted to Amsterdam in 2012 as senior vice president, Supply Chain Operations, EMEA. My first job was a warehouse supervisor trainee for a public warehouse (nowadays a 3PL), in Baltimore, Maryland. I progressed and spent five years in operations and five years in sales and general management.

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Memorial Day 2022

Enterra Insights

In August of 2012, the previously vigorous and healthy Thomson became seriously ill with cancer. ” A specialist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, told Thomson and his wife that his cancer had been caused by exposure. In 2007, Thomson was stationed at Camp Victory, in Baghdad.

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