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Wanted: Supply Chain Architects!

Supply Chain Shaman

Let me start with a true confession: I am a manufacturing gal. I relished the sound of a manufacturing line when I opened the door of the factory in the morning, and I liked managing inputs so that we could maximize outputs. Manufacturing is the foundation of my interest in supply chain management. It is now part of my DNA.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

However, transportation management experts caution logistics providers not to get too excited. As the logistics industry reexamines capacity challenges ahead of the 2022 holiday shipping season, SupplyChainDive gathered a group of transportation experts to discuss how shippers should prepare for a potentially tough peak season.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. Ecosystem Software– Apache Pig, Hive, HBase, Phoenix, Zookeeper, Impala, Flume, Oozie and Storm. As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities. Why Should you Care?

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

For those of us in neighboring states, North Dakota is the source of a clichéd “giant sucking sound,” the likes of which this generation has never experienced. The oil and gas industry impacts freight transportation in four significant areas: Diesel Prices. Rail Capacity. And it has all happened incredibly quickly.

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High-Tech Nation: How Technological Innovation Shapes America’s 435 Congressional Districts

GlobalTranz

This has always been too myopic a view of how technological innovation is distributed across the country, because of many other metropolitan areas and regions—from Phoenix to Salt Lake City to Philadelphia—are innovative hot spots, too, and many more areas are developing tech capabilities. Internet of Things, smart cities, etc.);