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Small is the new big: Millennials & the future of retail

DELMIA Quintiq

trillion annually and represent 30 percent of total retail sales” ( source ). Millennials are the ones checking in at locations where they work, dine, and play, advancing the growth of crowd-sourcing apps. By 2020…[Millenial shoppers’] spending in the United States will grow to $1.4 Use targeted promotions.

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Striking a Balance

BlueYonder

She shares how she balances career and family –– and how saying ‘yes’ to an opportunity to relocate to Costa Rica was a transformational moment for her career. . In 2002, there were two employees who worked at L.L.Bean in our Costa Rican sourcing office, facilitating vendor management in Central and South America.

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Addressing sustainability threats to coffee supply chain using low-code technology

TrackVia

It’s likely that you’ve never heard of them because they operate behind the scenes providing the unroasted coffee beans to retail coffee companies like Starbucks and Peets that you know and love. Volcafe Way is a sustainable sourcing strategy created to radically transform coffee production.

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Striking a Balance

BlueYonder

She shares how she balances career and family –– and how saying ‘yes’ to an opportunity to relocate to Costa Rica was a transformational moment for her career. . In 2002, there were two employees who worked at L.L.Bean in our Costa Rican sourcing office, facilitating vendor management in Central and South America.

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Supply Chain Alone Can’t Solve Sustainability But it Has a Part to Play!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It saw leaders from around the world pledging new initiatives to address the ongoing climate crisis, including a $60 Billion renewable energy commitment from Germany, and 15 countries including Britain, Norway and Costa Rica pledging to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. It’s what we do, as a profession.

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[PROFILE] Steve Hollich '14 - Parker CMC Networking

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

The UCLA Anderson Parker Career Management Center is comprised of Career Coaches and Executives-in-Residence, who partner with students to define, pursue and achieve their post-MBA career goals, and the Campus Recruiting Team, which cultivates relationships with companies to connect them with the right MBA talent. Parker CMC Site.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

My family and I spent more than a week in Costa Rica, where everyone greets you with “Pura Vida,” which means “Pure Life” in Spanish. This example implies that shipments for this company were held at ports or customs for a week or more due to paperwork or faulty data issues. I’m back from vacation. Well, back physically.