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Building a Company and a Network with Nicole Glenn

The Logistics of Logistics

About Nicole Glenn Nicole Glenn founded Candor Expedite in 2017 after more than two decades in the transportation brokerage business, with a vision to build the smartest and most efficient freight business that delivers on its client’s promises.

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Boot Barn Implements Intelligent Warehouse Automation and Control System

Logistics Viewpoints

The company also operates store support and distribution centers in California and Kansas. The Wichita, Kansas facility supports the company’s expanding e-commerce business. In 2017 Boot Barn installed the Körber Warehouse Management System (WMS) in its Wichita facility that spanned almost 100,000 square feet at that time.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The Looming Great Allocation In conjunction with the Jackson Hole Symposium held last week and organized by The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , a research paper titled: Global Supply Chains: The Looming “Great Reallocation ” was released. percent in 2017 and have since fallen to 16.5 imports peaked at 21.6 percent in 2022.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 12-16, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City (Kansas City Star). Perry says rates will climb between 5-7 percent by the end of 2017. New Transport Mode to Redefine Freight Movement. Keeping track of warehouse inventories with an army of fully autonomous drones (TechCrunch).

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First Post-ELD Roadcheck Coming June 5-7

DAT Solutions

Christopher Turner of the Kansas Highway Patrol, president of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), which sponsors Roadcheck. This will be Roadcheck's first year following the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate, which took effect Dec. “The ELD mandate placed a spotlight on hours-of-service compliance,” said Capt.

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Tomorrow’s Workforce must Embrace Training and Re-skilling

Enterra Insights

”[1] In a 2017 study, Didem Tuzemen, an economist at the Kansas City Fed, indicated the “decline in demand for middle-skilled work — a phenomenon dubbed ‘job polarization,’ because more positions are concentrated at the higher and lower ends — has played a role in keeping prime-age men out of the job market.”[2]

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Mobile Technology in Education: Is the Devil in the Screen rather than the Details?

Enterra Insights

In May 2017, The National Association for the Education of Young Children noted, ‘Monkeys play. Natasha Burgert, a pediatrician in Kansas City, told Bowles, “We are subjecting them to one of the biggest social experiments we have seen in a long time.” Even octopuses play. ” What can be done?

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