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Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014

Talking Logistics

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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Supply chains on film

Supply Chain Movement

A growing number of scenes in films and television programmes – and even entire films and TV series – are about logistics and supply chain management, and media productions are going ever deeper into those business roles. This opening scene presents the supply chain, in this case of a bullet, very effectively.

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o9 Solutions Partners with Two New Inspiring Leaders Ready to Provide Insights and Ideas to Digitally Transform your Operations.

o9 Solutions

His knowledge of the supply chain has been built up since his early days as a consultant at McKinsey and a Global Account Manager at i2 Technologies. His work has allowed him to develop skills in agility-enabling Enterprise IT Architecture including Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, creating agile design and supply chains.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. For discount retailers like Burlington, the supply chain is often a competitive advantage — and thus a secret recipe for success.

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Toyota Consolidating Operations in Texas

Operations and Supply Chain Management

WSJ – Updated April 28, 2014 6:37 p.m. was too far from the auto maker’s factories in Kentucky, Indiana, Mississippi and Texas and from its engineering center in Ann Arbor, Mich., What are the major risks to Toyota associated with this decision? Texas to Pay $10,000 for Each Toyota Job. A Golden State goodbye. Erlanger, Ky.,

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