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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

As I highlighted in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2013 , tablets and smartphones are quickly becoming the preferred computing platform for business professionals, which is why technology providers are designing and optimizing their applications for these devices. Song of the Week: “Miracle Mile” by Cold War Kids.

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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

That was up from a reported 10 percent in 2013. The center fuselage and other structural components for the wide body Airbus 350 are produced at Spirit’s facilities in North Carolina and in Prestwick, Scotland.

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USDA Funds NC State Study: Integrating North Carolina’s small farmers and producers in the global food supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) in North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management is one of several partners in a five- year, $3.9 million grant-funded project to build and evaluate supply chains for local farmers and fishers to supply large-scale markets in North Carolina.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Warehouse Automation. Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. Media Type.

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The Flexe Story with Dave Glick

The Logistics of Logistics

in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe brings deep logistics expertise and enterprise-grade technology to deliver innovative eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity programs to the Fortune 500. About Flexe.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

2013 has certainly been an interesting year! I helped create the first North American chapter of BVL International in the Carolinas, and we hosted two meetings at Volvo in North Carolina and Thyssen-Krupp in South Carolina. This complexity is occurring in many forms.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

The US manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 percent more than similar workers in the rest of the economy in 2012–2013. million workers in 2013, 8.8 The top 10 states ranked by manufacturing’s share of total state employment in 2013 are Indiana (16.8 gross domestic product) in 2013.