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Supply Chain Risk in the Age of Big Data

Enterra Insights

Megginson, a Louisiana State University business professor, stated, “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”[1]

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Well Prepared Retailers Seize Opportunity for Advantage during Port Closures

Supply Chain Collaborator

They’d be the ones who were able to flex their supply chain and logistics plans to overcome some very challenging obstacles in the last 12 months. Opportunity Knocks – The Wall Street Journal reports the West Coast ports’ share of container imports fell precipitously year over year between May 2014 and May 2015 according to U.S.

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Doing Business in the United States

QAD

Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. The only state exception is Louisiana, whose legal system is based on the Napoleonic civil code. Agriculture makes up 0.9 percent of the GDP and occupies 0.7 percent of the labor force. While the U.S. Though, the U.S. The government is stable and business laws are consistent.