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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

The company launched their platform in 2014. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. You need to model the company’s competitors, end consumers, and the demographics of customers in Texas versus New York.”

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Why is a Data Center Like a Supply Chain?

Elementum

Facebook announced today that it is moving forward with building a fifth data center , with plans to build in Fort Worth, Texas. This will be the second of five data centers built for Facebook that runs completely on renewable energy sources – it’s not hard to imagine how much power the information of 1.4 But that’s just one example.

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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

They founded Access America, and it grew to about $600 million in revenue in 2014. FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. I pay about one sixth of what I paid in Texas. Robinson decided to build a brokerage business inside a brick business owned by the father of his frat brother.

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Google Glass – The Launch of a New Product

Operations and Supply Chain Management

WSJ – May 13, 2014, 8:10 PM ET. By Ben Fox Rubin WSJ – Updated May 13, 2014 12:06 p.m. IHS and Teardown.com both mentioned that Texas Instruments Inc. Google indicates that they will sell the product for “as long as we have it on hand.” What should their long term strategy be for producing this product in the future.

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2015 Truckload Contract Rates Rise, as Spot Rates Fall

DAT Solutions

Trucks were readily available on the spot market in 2015 , and at bargain prices -- at least when you compare to average rates in 2014. If you take a longer view, however, it's 2014 that looks like the exception. By the end of 2014, big carriers realized they needed to boost capacity. 2015 Looks Like 2013, but With More Trucks.