Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 4, 2018

Few people, however, think about the war for independence and the vital role played by the supply chain. Once the revolution commenced, trade and the supply chain continued to play an important role. The British supply line stretched nearly 3000 miles across an often tempestuous ocean. ”[3].

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BlueYonder

MAY 8, 2013

Day 3 of JDA FOCUS 2013 began on an inspirational and insightful note as Rudy Giuliani, the 107 th Mayor of New York City shared his thoughts on what makes a good leader. Supply Chain Supply Chain Management JDA FOCUS JDA Software jdasoftware supply chain supply chain management'

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputation and other challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. That was up from a reported 10 percent in 2013.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 11, 2013

Supply Chain Management. News & Events. |. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management.

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Provenance

JULY 28, 2020

Exposed this week in the New York Times for transparency ambitions that don’t match up with company reality, Everlane are becoming an example of what happens when you don’t follow a robust roadmap for transparency, but treat it as a stand-alone marketing strategy. What went wrong for Everlane? What does this mean for your brand?

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. From the outset of the venture, founder Lei Jun was focused on establishing and maintaining a high quality supply chain, and not without reason. Currently valued at $46 billion with $1.4

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We salute the year’s top advancements in supply chain technology and processes. Thanks to omni-channel distribution, 3-D printing, self-service logistics and other avenues of disintermediation, traditional supply chain roles are rapidly being transformed into all-new opportunities. Warehouse Automation. Media Type.

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. From the outset of the venture, founder Lei Jun was focused on establishing and maintaining a high quality supply chain, and not without reason. Currently valued at $46 billion with $1.4

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 29, 2016

In 2013, Google launched Google Express, its rendition of an online shopping and delivery service. It currently serves the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C., In New York, where competitors include Fresh Direct, Google Express only has 1% of the market.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 12, 2014

I first wrote about this problem almost three years ago, when I commented about a story in the New York Times about thieves that stole six truckloads of tomatoes and one truckload of cucumbers from Florida growers, along with a truckload of frozen meat, by setting up a bogus trucking company and deceiving a broker. Be Sociable, Share!

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2014

across from the Empire State Building in Midtown [and on the same busy street as Macy’s flagship store], would function as a mini warehouse, with limited inventory for same-day delivery within New York, product returns and exchanges, and pickups of online orders. percent from August 2013. August 2014 freight shipments were up 3.8

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2019

In fact, in 2018 we saw investments go up across the entire supply chain technology spectrum.” Costs in 6 major Texas urban areas skyrocket from $1 billion in 2013 to $6.3 New York City has seen a 29% increase in residential deliveries from 2010 to 2015. Sluggish iPhone sales felt across Apple’s supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2015

Big Companies Pay Later, Squeezing Their Suppliers ( New York Times ). As noted in the New York Times article linked above: Most [large companies extending payment terms] are trying to maximize use of their capital, bankers who work with supply chain finance say. Mondelez, for one, is buying back stock.

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RFgen

MARCH 22, 2015

Supply chains are now dependent on cutting-edge software and systems to meet growing global demand. Supply chains are now more wide-sweeping, meaning the chance of disruption is also higher. The estimated revenue impact cost those along the supply chain $1.5 billion in Vietnam and China.

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RFgen

MARCH 22, 2015

Supply chains are now dependent on cutting-edge software and systems to meet growing global demand. Supply chains are now more wide-sweeping, meaning the chance of disruption is also higher. The estimated revenue impact cost those along the supply chain $1.5 billion in Vietnam and China.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Supply chains will be strained like never before as businesses try to keep up with record e-commerce purchases, with distribution centers hiring tens of thousands more workers to package and ship orders.” 1] Maxwell Strachan, “‘ Black Friday’ Originally Meant Something Much, Much Darker ,” Huffington Post, 27 November 2013. [2]

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 25, 2020

In early 2013 I sat in on a lecture given by Clay to a number of senior supply chain executives at a gathering at the new 7 World Trade Center in New York. The supply chain’s roleis to generate capital through efficiency and sustaining innovations, which can be invested in disruptive innovations.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Lots of news to get to this week, so let’s get started… Descartes Acquires e-customs. SAP Fuels New Era of Social Collaboration to Transform Work. SAP Readies a Big Business Marketplace ( New York Times ). Esri and E2open Partner to Deliver Market-Leading Supply Chain Solutions. Trucking Industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 22, 2013

Buzz words filled the air at the NRF Big Show, held at the Javitz Convention Center in New York last week. I have a short list of retailers that I am watching that I think will fail in 2013 due to the lack of this understanding. In the last decade, we defined a set of new terms to describe enterprise requirements.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2018

Well, I could turn to an AI-powered robot to my write my post for me (see Wired article, “ What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism ”). Or I can just wing it and go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week. a Nafta Tale of Two Truckers (New York Times).

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Talking Logistics

JULY 28, 2017

Moving on, here’s the rest of this week’s supply chain and logistics news: Freight-Booking Startup Convoy Raises $62 Million (WSJ – sub. As of today [July 20, 2017], the company will suspend operations in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, and only operate in San Francisco, where the company is based.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 28, 2023

This is the second guest blog from Craig Lukasik , an MBA supply chain graduate from the Poole College of Management’s supply chain program. Looking at the finished product with your eyes barely conveys the awesome complexity of the supply chain involved in bringing it to life.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 6, 2014

  June 10, 2013.   In Shenzhen city, you may not find someone selling you a fake Rolex but you will find many street vendors selling Mead Johnson or Nestlé infant formula smuggled from Hong Kong, the United States, Australia, the UK, or New Zealand.    This (illegally imported) infant formula is not cheap. 

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Talking Logistics

JULY 2, 2014

I’ve been using the word convergence to describe many of the trends occurring in the supply chain and logistics field today, and convergence was certainly evident at Roadnet’s perform 2014 User Conference a few weeks ago. FreshDirect , an online grocer serving the New York City metropolitan area, is a great example.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 12, 2017

It was a very busy week in the world of supply chain and logistics, so let’s go straight to the news that caught my attention: FLEXE Launches Nationwide Next-Day Delivery. Airbus creates new commercial drone services start-up “Airbus Aerial”. Infor M3 Integrates to GT Nexus Supply Chain Network.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. Supply chain risks are reduced. Reshoring Stats Since 2013. This is the first post in a two part series on our update on Reshoring.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) reached a tentative new 5-year agreement late on Friday, so the West Coast ports resumed full operations this past weekend. But there’s little time to celebrate. Productivity at U.S. ports lags those in Asia and Europe. Any ideas on what to do?

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

A January 2012 article published in The New York Times , for example, focused on many topics, including the poor working conditions at Foxconn, but here is the excerpt that caught my attention the most: Apple typically asks suppliers to specify how much every part costs, how many workers are needed and the size of their salaries.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

NYSE: R), a leader in commercial fleet management , dedicated transportation , and supply chain solutions , announced today it has started to take delivery of 125 medium-duty electric panel vans, the first of their kind in North America, now available for lease or rent. Miami, November 2, 2017 —Ryder System, Inc. About Ryder.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Driverless vehicles and package delivery dominated the supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to it: Google wants to deliver packages from self-driving trucks ( Quartz ). Self-Driving Cars Clear a Hurdle, With Computer Called Driver ( WSJ – sub.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

.   (This blog is based on the article "Fast Fashion: Business Model Overview and Research Opportunities" to appear in Retail Supply Chain Management: Quantitative Models and Empirical Studies , 2nd Edition, Springer, New York, NY.).

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2013

December 2013. November 2013. October 2013. UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog. News and World Report. UCLA Anderson Hosts Local TEDWomen 2013 » 12/05/2013. Posted by UCLA Anderson on 12/05/2013 at 05:20 PM | Permalink. April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 26, 2015

Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention: Wal-Mart to impose charges on suppliers as its costs mount (Reuters). gain in April and the smallest year-over-year gain since February 2013 (-4.3%). Deliv Acquires WeDeliver in Chicago. April 2015 North American Freight : “U.S.-NAFTA

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Supply Chain Management. News & Events. |. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. View all Infosys blogs.

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