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The Secret Sauce with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

in Transportation and Logistics from Arkansas State University. To ensure that the Emerge team develop fruitful relationships, Mark insists upon a communication strategy that includes quarterly business reviews (QBR), reporting key performance indicators, root cause analysis, lead-time analytics, cost-down goals, etc. About Emerge.

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Reports Indicate Walmart Cutting Salary Staff

Supply Chain Matters

Inventory levels reportedly increased more than 33 percent during the quarter, a reflection of what was described as an aggressive buying strategy amid supply chain disruptions. Notifications to employees reportedly began this week in both the Bentonville, Arkansas corporate office and other corporate offices.

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FOSC: Collaboration drives last-mile success

The Logistics of Logistics

Ty Findley, managing partner of Ironspring Ventures, conducted a roundtable discussion titled The Next Chapter on Last Mile, with Penny Register-Shaw, chief strategy officer of The FRONTDoor Collective, and Bill Catania, founder and CEO of OneRail, on Tuesday during day two of FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event in Rogers, Arkansas.

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Walmart First to Deliver Driverless Middle Mile

Multichannel Merchant

We’re thrilled to be working with Gatik to achieve this industry-first, driverless milestone in our home state of Arkansas and look forward to continuing to use this technology to serve Walmart customers with speed.”.

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

GlobalTranz

The evolution of Walmart’s supply chain includes three elements, according to a 2012 article from Arkansas Business: distribution practices, operating its own fleet of trucks, and technology. of its sales, or less than half Kmart’s cost and just under a third of what Sears was spending at the time, according to Arkansas Business.

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SupplyPike’s Christine Tan Makes the Fast 15

SupplyPike

For the past twelve years, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal has created a list designed to recognize an exclusive group of 20-something professionals on the fast track to success in the Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith metro areas. Christine started off as a project manager when SupplyPike was a division of CaseStack.

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World Cup Plays that Build Winning Supply Chain Teams

MIT Supply Chain

In other words, these leaders had not moved with the times; they had failed to reinvent the strategies and processes that underpinned past successes. For example, Dell Corporation was the leading personal computer manufacturer in the world, earning accolades for its vaunted manufacturing postponement strategy.