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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Update- March 28 2024

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an updated news capsule follow-up relative to supply chain management and industry developments that we have shared previously on this blog. The UAW has fallen short in two prior votes to organize the Chattanooga facility — in 2014 and 2019, both times by narrow margins.

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Unlearning Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

The near-infinite processing power Cloud computing provides (along with other technological innovations) will cause everyone in the supply chain and logistics field to unlearn the way we’ve always done things, everything from the way we design software applications to how we design and manage supply chain processes.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

UPS Capital – Sponsored Study Shows Supply Chain Risk Mitigation Strategies Lacking. Penske Logistics Joins CargoNet to Enhance Supply Chain Security. It’s not new, it’s not sexy, but B2B connectivity is coming out of the shadows and becoming an important factor in creating an end-to-end supply chain solution.”

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Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection

Kinaxis

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection. Linear supply chains as we know them are turning into supply networks with more players and parties than ever before.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 28 – April 1, 2016)

Talking Logistics

2014: Facebook, Google, and eBay Announce “Internet of Lost Things” Partnership. In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week, without commentary. Five years after Japan quake, rewiring of auto supply chain hits limits (Reuters). AAR: Rail traffic down in U.S.,

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Redefining Freight Brokerage with Nick Jensen

The Logistics of Logistics

Nick earned a Bachelor of Enterprise Management from University of Tennessee. Loadsmart is a Chicago-based freight tech company founded in 2014. The human connection will always be there, which is his favorite part, but the utilization of technology to improve processes is what’s going to separate the competition. About Loadsmart.

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Autokiniton Leverages QAD Cloud for Rapid Disaster Recovery

QAD

That said, Autokiniton, the second-largest Body-In-White and vehicle-frame supplier in North America, was as ready as any business could be when an EF-3 tornado struck its Eastgate Plant in Tennessee and damaged another nearby. The QAD Cloud is everything for us to the fact that it’s literally not on-site,” explained Butler. “If

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