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Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014

Talking Logistics

Source: “Sustainability and Green Initiatives in Transportation & Logistics,” Jason Mathers, EDF, Ryder Innovate 2014. Source: “Advances & Best Practices in Supply Chain Design,” Toby Brzoznowski, LLamasoft, Ryder Innovate 2014. Talent Management as the Core of a Supply Chain Strategy.

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Supply Chain Risk Report: Ukraine-Russia Conflict

Resilinc

Oil prices have risen to well over $90 a barrel — their highest levels since 2014 — in recent days as fears of war have grown,” reported the New York Times last week. Russian trade has dropped in recent conflicts, especially Russian aggression in Chechnya and Georgia.

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Managing Supplier Risk: A Lesson from Parnell and Peanuts

EcoVadis

The sentence comes as a result of the late 2008-2009 salmonella outbreak linked back to PCA plants in Texas and Georgia. Now more than ever, suppliers have their own suppliers, and it can be difficult to follow the supply chain back all the way in order to manage, let alone identify, the original source. Trust but verify.”.

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REPOST: Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. They founded Access America, and it grew to about $600 million in revenue in 2014. FreightWaves’?

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Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

The machine that produces carpet was invented in Chattanooga and Dalton, Georgia (just south of here), and that carpet needed to be hauled. They founded Access America, and it grew to about $600 million in revenue in 2014. It’s great to have a combination of homegrown employees and ones that were willing to relocate. [30:00]

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Will the Circular Economy Ever Go Mainstream?

Enterra Insights

Georgia Wilson, a supply chain journalist, notes, “A circular economy is an economic model that encourages continuous reuse of materials to minimize waste, as well as driving demand for natural resource consumption.”[6] Producing using renewable energy sources such as Solar Power reinforces a self-sustaining production process.”

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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

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