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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

Speakers are the SCRC meeting yesterday and today continued to speak more on the topic of transportation strategy given increasing challenges in the transportation sector, and the need for an effective transportation management strategy. In the regulatory environment, there are a number of regulations that are on the books.

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From Taiwan to the U.S.—Duty-free

3PL Insights

The Evans team understood the issue and were able to reroute the containers directly to the Detroit ramp, all under FTZ status.”. The Evans transportation team went into high gear to redirect the containers to Detroit all while keeping the proper documentation to maintain FTZ status. “We needed to intercept their entry into U.S.

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REPOST: Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. Steve wrote a book called The Third Wave which deals with a deep understanding of how industries work.

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Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

Steve wrote a book called The Third Wave which deals with deep understanding of how industries work. I think the next generation of venture capital will be in places like Detroit, Des Moines, Houston, Cleveland, etc. 38:44] In Michigan, we used to look down on The South because so many people moved away from it to work in Detroit.

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When Your Hero Dies

Tailwind

She remembered that the first book I ever took out of the library in North Battleford was Stan Fischler’s, ‘Gordie Howe’ story. My grandmother was the librarian there and one nice sunny day when we drove into town from our summer cottage – no doubt to get the laundry done – I was allowed to go over a get a book.

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When Your Hero Dies

Tailwind

She remembered that the first book I ever took out of the library in North Battleford was Stan Fischler’s, ‘Gordie Howe’ story. My grandmother was the librarian there and one nice sunny day when we drove into town from our summer cottage – no doubt to get the laundry done – I was allowed to go over a get a book. Murray Pratt.

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

.”[2] He goes on to note, “The phrase ‘Supply Chain Management’ was originally coined by Keith Oliver in 1982 and subsequently gained increasing popularity as its usage was proliferated in books and language.” ” Coining a term and defining the term are two different things.