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Port of Los Angeles: Disintermediation and Other Risks

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

  The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are vital to the LA economy, not only because they provide a significant number of jobs in the shipping and logistics industries, but also because they give the city itself a competitive edge with regard to shipping times and transportation costs when it comes to operating a global businesses here. .

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Cardwell, 2014). Los Angeles Times.

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Supply Chain Disruptions? Everything’s Clearer with the Right TMS Technology

TMC

We’ve all been there—and it’s every logistics professional’s nightmare. Spot bid tools give the capability to source capacity for the most critical of shipments and benchmark rates within your carrier network to mitigate additional costs as much as possible. Life is good! Final thoughts.

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Supply Chain Disruptions? Everything’s Clearer with the Right TMS Technology

TMC

We’ve all been there—and it’s every logistics professional’s nightmare. Spot bid tools give the capability to source capacity for the most critical of shipments and benchmark rates within your carrier network to mitigate additional costs as much as possible. Life is good! Final thoughts.

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Supply Chain Disruptions? Everything’s Clearer with the Right TMS Technology

TMC

We’ve all been there—and it’s every logistics professional’s nightmare. Spot bid tools give the capability to source capacity for the most critical of shipments and benchmark rates within your carrier network to mitigate additional costs as much as possible. Life is good! Final thoughts.

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Supply Chain Movement 16 – Consultancy

Supply Chain Movement

With Oracle on 31 October 2014. With EveryAngle on 19 November 2014. Following on from its highly popular subway maps showing supply chain software vendors and logistics service providers, the European quarterly magazine Supply Chain Movement has now published the second edition about the supply chain consultancy sector.

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Nasty Gal: When a Disrupter Isn’t Disruptive Enough

FLEXE

an online retailer focused on fast fashion for millennials, has gone from generating $85 million in revenue in 2014 to bankrupt in 2016… What happened? The purchase includes full rights to the brand and includes eliminating its brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Nasty Gal Inc.,