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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

Riding a rising five-year trend, retail juggernaut Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408 billion in fiscal 2010, according to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2014.” Top 100 Retailers Chart 2014.” restaurant industry made in 2013.

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SupplyPike’s Christine Tan Makes the Fast 15

SupplyPike

For the past twelve years, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal has created a list designed to recognize an exclusive group of 20-something professionals on the fast track to success in the Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith metro areas. Christine started off as a project manager when SupplyPike was a division of CaseStack.

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World Cup Plays that Build Winning Supply Chain Teams

MIT Supply Chain

The 2014 FIFA World Cup is finally over. One of the most pleasing features of the 2014 World Cup is how “small” teams such as Algeria and Costa Rica gave bigger teams a run for their money. The winners of the 2014 World Cup, Germany, had already learned lessons like these before they got to Brazil.

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

GlobalTranz

percent, 249,100 jobs), Arkansas (12.9 million manufacturing jobs would have been created through the third quarter of 2014. The top 10 states ranked by manufacturing’s share of total state employment in 2013 are Indiana (16.8 percent, 491,900 jobs), Wisconsin (16.3 percent, 458,400 jobs), Iowa (14.0 percent, 152,400 jobs), Ohio (12.6

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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

Logistics startup Zipline has flown more than 38 million miles with its autonomous electric delivery drones since the company was founded in 2014. The bill was introduced after the DMV announced it would develop regulations to let companies test driverless 18-wheelers and other vehicles weighing over 10,001 pounds.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

After graduating from the University of Oxford, Hunter Yaw worked as a project manager for several companies, including as the Head of Special Projects, Fuel Logistics for the Sochi 2014 Organizing committee. TJ Sangam is the CTO of SupplyPike , a digital supply chain software company, based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. SupplyPike.

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Do Freight Shipping Prices Vary by State?

Freight Center

Freight rates generally remain consistent throughout the entire year in the state of Arkansas. billion in 2014. Over $188 billion of freight shipments come in and out of the state each year, with about 41 percent coming into the state and 21 percent traveling outbound. California.