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Panama Canal Expansion Boosts Freight in an Unexpected Place

DAT Solutions

Expansion at the Panama Canal, pictured above, has led to a business boom in South Carolina. But the South Carolina freight market has already gotten a boost thanks to the expansion, and the industrial boom has been evident on DAT Load Boards. Photo by Stan Shebs. Last week's load-to-truck ratio in Greenville rose to 7.4,

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I visited the BVL Kongress in Berlin, and also attended the International Institute for Analytics ”Chief Analytics Officer” meeting last summer. We just finished hosting over 150 executives at our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, with a theme on Supply Chain Analytics.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

Sleep Number Labs, the Company’s technology center, is in San Jose, California and works on data analytics and algorithm development to gain insights from Sleep Number’s proprietary SleepIQ technology, which has created one of the largest sleep databases in the world. Late-stage assembly in the warehouses enables five-day delivery.