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What’s New in 2015 for the supply chain world? See 2014?s predictions.

Supply Chain View from the Field

While it seemed like many companies would be moving more towards the BRIC countries, global events have proven this uptake to be relatively slow. With Amazon and others going to same day deliveries, the e-commerce boom is making transportation and delivery infrastructure more difficult to navigate.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

The Hadoop approaches to data management are about 1/5th the cost of relational database approaches. Hadoop enables users to bring structured and unstructured data together in a natural state (think file folders) and then query or index based on need. Is this a sign of a looming recession or a transportation opportunity?