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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

The Wire is an incredible TV show, following the drug ecosystem in urban Baltimore and the police officers tasked with bringing it into check. And season two is all about the Port of Baltimore. The Top Ten Logistics and Supply Chain Books: 1. Why this books rocks: The author actually took a cruise on a Maersk ship.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 16-20, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Prime Now Expands: One-Hour Delivery on Tens of Thousands of Daily Essentials Now Available to Prime Members in Baltimore and Miami. 2014 North American Freight Numbers. Since it’s late and I have a 3 a.m. Starbucks to debut delivery in Manhattan, Seattle this year (Reuters). Sears Tries to Calm Supplier Jitters (WSJ – sub.

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March Freight Moves Out on a High Note

DAT Solutions

mile as a national average, the highest since 2014. One key lane, Miami to Baltimore, bounced up 24¢ to $2.28/mile. Also, if you have an available flatbed, you're gonna be very, very popular with freight brokers. Flatbeds closed the month at $2.53/mile Then, a day or two into April, rates went up some more.

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Fall Quarter - Part 1 - FEMBA Speaks

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014. « Greetings from this 2013-2014 FEMBAssador Social Media Team! FEMBA Speaks. December 2013. November 2013. April 2013. March 2013. February 2013. Categories. Amber Jackson. Prashant Talwar. For blog inquiries: femba.admissions @anderson.ucla.edu.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. Recently, I spoke to a major European retailer that lost 5% of their grocery revenues to Amazon in the first quarter of 2014. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. From The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation , by Ludwig Edelstein. Why It Matters.

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What are Block Chains? – Jason Busch on the Future of Money, Trust and Transparency

NC State SCRC

Jason Busch provided a great view on Block Chains, and their impact on the future of funds in the supply chain, at the Global Procurement Tech Summit in Baltimore. This is very costly, and there are over $1T in fees paid by businesses, and over 62% of companies were targets of bank fraud in 2014.

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5 Facts About American Manufacturing & 3 Reasons to Work In Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

In February, the company, founded in 1968 in Brooklyn and later moved to Baltimore by Greenblatt, announced a new expansion. Compare this to the median wage for machinists in the manufacturing industry, which was $39,930 a year in 2014, or $19.20