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Handfield’s Top Supply Chain Predictions for 2016

NC State SCRC

Other indicators included data pulled from the Federal Reserve economic database, the Producer Price Index, the Purchasing Managers Index, as well as internal metrics such as the size of the company’s own sales force. They discovered that there were several leading indicators of demand, including coal (a 10 month leading indicator).

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AI and Climate Change, Can Technology Save The Planet, and What’s Next for Green City Vancouver

Freightera

Built environments and buildings are large part of it, but we’re also tackling transportation and fossil fuel vehicles, our next big source of emissions. Big institutions, like the city, often find it very hard to work with innovators and all the latest technology that’s coming up. Do we just pull out of Bangladesh?