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U.S. Logistics Manager’s Index Drops to an All Time Low in May

Supply Chain Matters

Transportation utilization reportedly dipped a hefty 9.5 percentage points In May, noted as an indication that shippers are consuming even less of available capacity than the month earlier. Consequently, transportation prices reportedly declined 8.9 Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s release of the U.S.

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Which Metrics Matter? Interview with Philippe Lambotte

Supply Chain Shaman

We are currently working with Arizona State University (ASU) to use advanced operations research techniques to understand the patterns in our database of 52 supply chain financial ratios for the period of 2006-2013. Another example is in Consumer Goods industry with coffee. I want to help. Absolutely, it can be done.

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