article thumbnail

Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Water levels falling in the Rhine, the Loire, and the Colorado River. As shown in Table 2, for the period of 2012-2021, Mondelez is 27 th out of 35 companies in the food sector in driving improvement. Mondelez Comparison to Nestle and Industry Average for the Period of 2012-2021. Thirty-one months of supply chain disruption.

article thumbnail

SCM Best Paper Award Winners 2013 (1/2)

SCM Research

This year’s CSCMP Annual Global Conference took place in Denver, Colorado. It has become a good tradition that some of the leading journals of our field announce their best paper awards during the CSCMP’s Supply Chain Management Educators’ Conference, the academic part of the CSCMP Conference ( see my previous post from Atlanta last year ).

SCM 154
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (October 24-28, 2016)

Talking Logistics

In 2012, for example, he was elected as a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), where he served as chair of the Sections and Societies Subcommittee and as president of the Transportation Science and Logistics Section. I am forever grateful. states do not expressly prohibit self-driving trucks.

article thumbnail

Emergency Freight: What Harvey Tells Us About Irma

DAT Solutions

Big weather events, like Super Storm Sandy in 2012 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, usually affect freight movements in three stages: Before the storm , if it is predicted in advance, shippers hustle to move freight out of the way of the impending onslaught.

Freight 70
article thumbnail

Hurricane Season Brings New Risks to Pandemic-stressed Supply Chain Chains

Enterra Insights

According to records from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the month of June has had only two other D-named storms: Tropical Storm Debby from 2012 and Tropical Storm Danielle from 2016.”[2]. ”[2]. How bad could the hurricane season be? As Dolce noted, this could be a very active hurricane season.

article thumbnail

Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a presentation with his son Zachary Rogers, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than $300 billion a year. “So The field is large and growing.

article thumbnail

National Random Acts of Kindness Day 2024

Enterra Insights

It originated in Denver, Colorado, and in 2004, spread to New Zealand. 3] Lizette Borreli, “ Random Acts Of Kindness Raise Dopamine Levels And Boost Your Mood ,” Medical Daily, 26 April 2016 [4] Talya Steinberg, “ Practicing Acts of Kindness ,” Psychology Today, 20 November 2012. [5]

Study 130