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Fearless Females of Supply Chain: Be WISE

BlueYonder

As part of our “Fearless Females of Supply Chain” Blue Yonder Live series, Blue Yonder’s Chief Customer Officer Susan Beal spoke to Stephanie Powell Thomas , Associate Professor of Practice of SCM at the University of Arkansas and Executive Director of the WISE program. Stephanie: WISE stands for Women Impacting Supply Chain Excellence.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

When someone hears the company name “Walmart” several things come to mind from a pop culture standpoint. However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supply chain excellence. ” The Key’s To Walmart’s Supply Chain Management Excellence over the Year.

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Misnomer

Supply Chain Shaman

I find that many times companies have the wrong name, or a misnomer, for what they are trying to achieve. It was a large multinational company. This team is not buying the message. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. It was not measured.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 11 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

ACT targets manufacturers of trucks; ACF targets companies that buy and drive them. In 2016, Germany’s Delivery Hero acquired the company. It initially launched drone-based deliveries from three stores in Northwest Arkansas as far back as late 2021. That’s all for this week.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

RFID tags and robotic warehouse systems generate and transmit data that, when combined with other data sources, allow companies to optimize the supply chain and make better predictions and forecasts to improve efficiency and boost the bottom line. In 2019, gathering unique data will be more prominent in the brains of logistic companies.