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Supply Chain Management:Indicators from the 2012 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. Regarding unplanned supply disruption, the effects of super storm Sandy slamming directly into the New York and New Jersey regions of the U.S.

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Bring Out the Best in Your Supply Chain

Kinaxis

In the Fleetowner article, author Sean Kilcarr discusses a textbook example of a massive supply chain crisis: Hurricane Sandy, which devastated large parts of the United States back in October 2012. The Port of New York and New Jersey was hit hard, and they “had about 24 hours’ notice before Sandy hit,” she said.

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Consumers Demand Supply Chain Accountability Down to the Last Straw

Material Handling & Logistics

The California Transparency Supply Chains Act, for instance, which was enacted in 2012, requires companies to disclose information regarding their efforts to eradicate human trafficking and slavery within their supply chains. There were plastic straw bans in individual municipalities in Florida, New Jersey and California.

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Identity Theft, Trucking Style

Talking Logistics

And of the 1,192 cargo theft incidents reported to CargoNet in 2012, 73 were described as fictitious pick-ups, a 25 percent increase over 2011. Significant fictitious pick-up activity has also been reported in Florida, Texas and New Jersey. Overall, cargo theft is on the rise , as FreightWatch International reported last week.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

Those same words were said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. The serious and negative impacts this dispute left on the economy demonstrates why we cannot let this happen again.”.

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The Exception to the Rule

BlueYonder

In New York, you age out of the system at 21. In New Jersey, where my uncle lived – who I now call my dad – the age limit is 18. My foster care agency in New York created an interstate compact to allow me to move to New Jersey, but stay in the New York system so I could go to college and they could help with room and board.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

US Senator New Jersey. Colin Powell. 65 th US Secretary of State, Four Star General. Bill Bradley. Vincente Fox. 55 th President of Mexico. Michael Eisner. CEO Walt Disney. T Boone Pickens. BP Capital Mgmt. Gartner acquires AMR Research. Rick Frazier. VP SC Coca Cola. SVP SC Cisco. Jim Collins. Author – Good to Great.

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