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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017

Talking Logistics

Below is a short list of the supply chain and logistics conferences scheduled for 2017. Happy learning and networking in 2017! Descartes Systems Group : Evolution 2017 , March 28-30, West Palm Beach, FL. GT Nexus : Bridges 2017 , July 10-12, New York, New York. HighJump Software: Elevate 2017 , March 12-15, Orlando, FL.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

We are currently working with the statistics group at Georgia Tech to understand how the relationship of these metrics changed over time, but more on that in a later blog.) This work completed in 2013 defined the Supply Chains to Admire. My reply to my friend is that “The supply chain is a complex non-linear system.

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Implications from the Rana Plaza Disaster (Guest Post by Brian Jacobs and Vinod Singhal)

SCM Research

Brady Chair at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Vinod Singhal is a Professor of Operations Management and holds the Charles W. Brian Jacobs is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

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Ukraine and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

In 2017 the ‘NotPetya’ cyber-attack on Ukraine, which irreversibly encrypted data on computers, caused $10bn-worth of damage around the world (it was widely blamed on Russia).”[5] Up may recall that over a dozen years ago, he threatened Georgia in the same way he is threatening Ukraine. ”[4].

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Doing Business in Turkey

QAD

Its borders consist of Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Syria, and the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. Turkey ranks number 38 th of the world’s countries for land area but 13 th in terms of its economy and GDP, which reached $2.286 trillion in 2017. In 2017, Turkey exported $155.2 Its latest constitution was adopted in 1982.

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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Several companies in the Carolinas and Georgia that are within the projected path of Florence have also halted operations. Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. In North Carolina, Gov.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2018

Talking Logistics

Here are some posts I wrote this year sharing my takeaways from various conferences: Elevating the Heavy Building Materials Supply Chain (Takeaways from Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 Conference). More on The Future of Delivery (Takeaways from MercuryGate Velocity 2017 User Conference). Vendor Conferences (alphabetical order).