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She considered where she could get more, factoring in that it was Saturday night at 10:00 pm, she lived alone in Kansas City, and she’d be driving by herself. As MIT professor Yossi Sheffi has argued , less inventory in the system makes a company more flexible, actually building resilience. A change to one link (e.g.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2022

Toy companies are always looking for the next big thing. Mattel inked a multiyear deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to create a line of toys inspired by the space venture, the companies announced Wednesday. “As Louis, among other cities. And for Mattel, that next big thing might be Space X. Procter & Gamble is taking note.

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For example, Kansas City Southern has accepted trains from other lines that it usually wouldn’t have to accommodate. The company is transitioning to a new hub-and-spoke model for distribution that sorts and stores product around its network based on how quickly shipments need to reach stores. This number fell by 5.4%

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It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. How are companies embracing data lakes, streams, and clouds to use a growing variety and increasing velocity of data?

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