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Consumers Have More Choices than Ever this Holiday Shopping Season

BlueYonder

Here’s a quick roundup of some industry news to help you prepare for the busy holiday season. In an article posted to New Jersey 101.5’s Many NJ shoppers are over it – Dino Flammia writes that the Black Friday shopping rush appears to have lost its appeal with many New Jersey consumers.

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Guest Commentary: Tight Transportation Capacity, Not Flagging Demand, Behind ISM Report Showing Slowing Activity

Talking Logistics

economic output into 2014. Analysts point to the steep decline in orders for new transportation equipment as evidence that manufacturers are seeing weakness. While Chicago and New York/New Jersey hubs are no strangers to inclement winter weather, severe and widespread cold brought snowstorms to Atlanta and other southern U.S.

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Faculty Profile: Daniel Oppenheimer - UCLA Anderson School of.

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014. Garmaise Appointed Dean of Full-Time MBA Program » 04/25/2014. While he acknowledges that the job was fabulous, he admits that New Jersey never felt like home. Posted by UCLA Anderson on 04/25/2014 at 08:30 AM | Permalink. October 2013.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

CNN Money, Greg Wallace and Chris Isidore, October 6, 2014, “The company said the split will give both companies the focus, financial resources, and flexibility to adapt more quickly to the market…” So, what has been in place lacked focus, financial resources, and flexibility! US Senator New Jersey. Colin Powell. Bill Bradley.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

This excerpt from the Journal of Commerce’s Berth Productivity: The Trends, Outlook and Market Forces Impacting Ship Turnaround Times report (July 2014) summarizes the challenge nicely: If there’s an issue in the container shipping world that’s hotter than port productivity, I’m not aware of it. The bottom line for all U.S.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech June 28 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The new supply-chain intelligence platform, termed FourKites X, aims to combine data from FedEx’s network of more than 16.5 Founded in 2014 and based in Chicago, FourKites is working with more than 1,000 businesses in helping to track shipments from manufacturing facilities, warehouses and retail sites. million daily shipments.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 10-14, 2014)

Talking Logistics

September 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Cass Freight Index Report – October 2014. India and US reach WTO breakthrough over food (BBC News). This week, FedEx Freight drivers voted against the union in Newark, New Jersey , and Con-way Freight employees did the same in Manchester, New Hampshire.