Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s headline news includes AllBirds, Boeing, Canada Goose, Chemours, EMC, Hanes Brands, Fisker, Ford, Krispy Kreme, LKQ, Ryder, Tesla, Timken, Tyson Foods, Weight Watchers International, and WestRock. When he speaks of the supply chain, he means procurement. The market is punishing those missing the mark. This is his world.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Together with its strategic partner Optis Consulting, Ivalua’s solution has digitally enabled FCL’s policies and processes for core procurement activities, including sourcing and contract management. About Federated Co-operatives Limited and the Co-operative Retailing System. About TealBook.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2014

A new approach focuses on the way these products are procured. Research at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program , Zaragoza, Spain, is investigating why drug dispensers such as clinics and pharmacies might acquire fake drugs. Mahmut Parlar, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

August is usually a quiet month for supply chain and logistics news, but not this year, especially the past couple of weeks. LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. UK government announces funding for truck platooning trials (Automotive Logistics). Convey Closes $8.25

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker is the largest supplier of refractory products and services within the US and Canada. The company has 18 plants and operating locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico as well as plants and labs in the UK, China, and Indonesia. This closed loop procurement in turn helps ensure products are made on schedule.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Contrary to what some procurement professionals may think, all logistics solution providers are not created equal, and those who consider price only, or as main factor in their selection process, are doomed to mediocrity and perhaps even failure. Jim Tompkins. So what does Unichannel Customer Experience look like?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the increased prominence of Supply Chain, Logistics and Procurement within organizations, is compensation increasing? and their equivalent of Supply Chain Canada). and Canada, we think the results are instructive for Canadian hiring managers and SCM professionals as well. Satisfaction: Job satisfaction was also high.

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Supply Chain Network

JULY 27, 2011

Purolator, Canada’s leading integrated freight and parcel solutions provider, is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded Logistics Quarterly’s 2011 Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Sustainability Award for demonstrating leadership in sustainable supply chain practices. About Purolator Inc.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 24, 2023

Officials of the government of Canada then intervened in the actions of a Canada Industrial Relations Board ruling that the union’s job action was illegal because 72-hour notice of the action was not supplied and thus ordering workers back to work on Thursday of last week.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In his short tenure, Clark proceeded to recruit a number of additional high power executives, including former Amazon managers, to transform this digital start-up to what we perceived as beyond digital freight forwarding to a full services, almost fourth party logistics services provider (4PL).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 19, 2022

Over the past 20 years I have been fortunate to have worked in various industries (Automotive, Electronics, Plastics, Oil/Gas, Financial and Communication Equipment) for various world class companies, with a focus on Strategic Sourcing and Procurement. The exposure to such a diverse set of industries has given me invaluable experience.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

My initial involvement in the Third Party Logistics business was early in 1993 when I became the first Director of Development for Tibbett & Britten Group in North America. More than 20 years later the Third Party Logistics or 3PL business continues to grow around the world and therefore logistics professionals at almost all firms?

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EazyStock

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

To stay ahead, tech-smart operations, savvy professionals are using logistics and supply chain mobile applications as must-have tools for operational excellence. In this blog, the team at EazyStock will be showing you the most exciting logistics and supply chain mobile applications that will make your job even easier.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Argentus a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Closer to home in Canada, sales are expected to reach $ 5.7 Check out Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! in the U.S., billion by 2020.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 29, 2020

and Canada customs best practices. The next key subject to address is importing PPE into the United States and/or Canada. Importing PPE into Canada. While importing into Canada has some similarities—like changing regulations—there are some clear differences to be aware of as well. Metered freight solutions. In conclusion.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. The competencies required to bring about this new model can be bigger than redesigning RFPs or the Procurement process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2024

This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse to be visible in the provinces of Canada since February 26, 1979, the first in Mexico since July 11, 1991, and the first in the United States since August 21, 2017. and Canada. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This Alabama-based enterprise has undergone a remarkable transformation over the decades, from building its first warehouse in 1994 to evolving into a powerhouse in the logistics industry. We started our Logistics Division in 2010, which became its own L.L.C. and a wholly-owned subsidiary of BR Williams Trucking in 2020.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The intense precipitation—one climatologist told Reuters that the rainfall amounts were more like “a tropical cyclone [than a] November [storm] in Canada”—comes after a year of extreme heat waves, droughts, and wildfires in North America and in many parts of the world. If so, when?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Kristie Syndikus, VP Procurement at Maple Leaf Foods! Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Distribution management includes forecasting, transportation, warehousing, and delivery within the larger universe of logistics and supply chain management. Distribution management is an integral part of logistics. Logistics software. Successful distribution management utilizes: State-of-the-art information systems.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Yes, COVID caused many issues, but other factors, including geopolitical changes, the war in Ukraine, weather events, peak season , and economic instability, have altered the fabric of logistics. Warehouse and distribution managers and procurement professionals will need to start thinking about managing the customer experience better.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We’ve interviewed executives and thought leaders from all corners of the discipline in Canada about issues of talent, hiring, the field’s development and, well, just about every relevant Supply Chain question we could think of.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Judah Levine December 19, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 3% to $1,556/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Intelligent procurement technology provider JAGGAER announced the finalization of a partnership with TealBook , a tech provider that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to gather, predict and refine supplier data and to provide companies with additional product sourcing options.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Low-cost country sourcing is a procurement strategy that falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing. Depending on your local government restrictions and exchange rates, it can impact costs and tilt the balance in favour of global sourcing even when considering logistics costs. Local restrictions.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

Wildfires have been an ongoing affair in British Columbia since June 2021, claiming acres of forest area and severing railroad and highway links to the largest port in Canada. Fighting climate change with green logistics. By establishing the concept of eco-friendliness in your supply chain, a green logistics system can be introduced.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 8, 2021

There is so much to learn in many functions of supply chain, whether it is IT tools, planning and buying, commodities, global supplier management, logistics, warehousing. Do you want to focus on the Procurement side of things, or more on the Logistics and Planning side? Kristie Syndikus, VP Procurement at Maple Leaf Foods.

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TMC

OCTOBER 12, 2017

5 topics impacting today’s supply chains and the future of logistics. In the NAFTA modernization, the United States is expected to push Mexico and Canada to increase their de minimis levels to be more in line with the United States. Recently, we hosted our seventh annual Customer Forum in Chicago. The cost of the technology.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

2023 Prediction Three: More Direct Control in Strategic or Tactical Multi-tiered Direct Materials Sourcing will Continue to be a Prominent Element of Business Strategy for Chief Supply Chain or Chief Procurement Officer Efforts. . Canada or Mexico. Prediction Background. based manufacturing facilities had soared by over 116 percent.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In its current form the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and 11 Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries (Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand). The United States currently has FTA’s with six (6) of the 11 TPP countries. Gupta, Ph.D.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. Further, U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 19, 2021

Indeed, shippers are embracing TMS to book and schedule shipments, decide on the optimal mode of transportation needed for a shipment, track shipments and much more. .

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SupplyOn

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Airbus harmonized its global procurement processes with a innovative, highly comprehensive initiative featuring AirSupply, earning a well-deserved nomination for the German Logistics Award The construction of an aircraft is preceded by a highly complex, sophisticated procurement process.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 26, 2015

Within this organization, you are responsible for global supply chain management activities across geographies (Netherlands, Germany, Canada and Singapore), successfully driving supply chain strategies and policies ensuring availability and on time delivery of products (print systems, parts, and OEM) to customers. Who are we looking for?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Within a few years, demographers estimate that 400,000 baby boomers will be retiring in Canada every year. As a recruitment company specializing in Supply Chain and Procurement, Argentus sits at the nexus of a lot of these demographic changes.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2022

It further comes as Toyota continues to manage ongoing disruptions involving the ongoing global shortage of semiconductor devices utilized in automobiles, and the January trucker blockade of the border between Canada and the United States that interrupted parts flow to the automakers U.S.

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