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Misnomer

Supply Chain Shaman

Proudly, I had led my division to have the lowest manufacturing costs with the highest Return on Assets. I believed that we would find a company with the lowest distribution costs (warehousing and transportation), and the lowest manufacturing costs, and this would result in the best overall cost structure. I was wrong.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

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Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. They are a leading supplier of poultry, pet food and animal nutrition products based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in the US. Then we are pulling out of an animal nutrition production facility and taking those finished products to a pet food manufacturing facility.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 18 – 24)

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The indexes will feature in future Empire State Manufacturing and Business Leaders surveys, the bank said. Tractor Supply Company has gone big in Arkansas, opening its most high-tech distribution center yet. Manufactured in Hexagon Purus’ new facility in Dallas, Texas, the Tern RC8 is scheduled for serial production in late 2024.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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These plants produce various food products, and these new projects’ technologies can be replicated across a wide range of food and beverage manufacturers. The Arkansas Department of Transportation expects 1.5 Transportation officials are sharing plans in an effort to minimize headache-inducing traffic jams.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25 – 31)

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In the spring of 2022, Walmart created a new position among the roughly 15,000 employees who work at its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. crumbling infrastructure and manufacturing. But Walmart is looking at bikes in a different way. The Pitney Bowes report also indicates a slowdown from the 10.8

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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

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Called “flow wrap,” the packaging uses about 50 percent less plastic and 50 percent less energy in the manufacturing process versus traditional expanded polystyrene product packaging, according to Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

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Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program (New York Times) Transplace Invests in New Operations Center in Northwest Arkansas Black & Decker Fined $1.8M The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud: A Manufacturing-Centric Supply Chain Operating Network. A New Market Seeks to Draw Freight Bets (WSJ – sub. For Power Tools Sold In Iran.