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Jodie Clarke, VP of Procurement at Altria Client Services

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Communication is Essential for Supply Chain Leaders I had the pleasure of speaking with Jodie Clarke, Vice President of Procurement at Altria Client Services thisweek. Jodie grew up in Western North Carolina and graduated from Virginia Tech with a Master’ of Science in Crop & Soil Environmental Science.

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Supplier-Led Innovation Workshop

Supply Chain View from the Field

Nokia was addressing the future of America and Asia driven by China, but couldn’t buy chips from Qualcomm. So the Chief Procurement Officer approached Texas Instruments and HP Micro, producers of the best analog chips at the time, and brokered a deal in which TI and HP would collaborate to create a chip set for Nokia.

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Data Governance is real success story in analytics.

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With the sheer volume of data projected to increase tenfold by 2020, the procurement and supply chain function is no exception to challenge of assessing better ways to leverage this dramatic increase in both structured and un-structured data. How should companies get started on a data governance program?

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Robinson Introduces Navisphere App for Customers.

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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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The WSJ Drucker Management 250 List: NC State’s Input into the Ratings

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Every year about this time, the Wall Street Journal reveals its list of the Management Top 250 firms , which lists America’s Best-Run Companies. The announcement, which appeared in today’s WSJ, identifies some of the top companies, with Amazon ranked at #1, followed by Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, and Cisco.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.