Tompkins Blog

JUNE 19, 2014

The August 25-27 event will help companies focus their efforts on the right initiatives. The forum allows companies to benchmark their supply chains against others to identify and prioritize opportunities,” says Bruce Tompkins, Executive Director of Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium and director of the event. businesses.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

“We found that the better the level of alignment, the more likely it is that companies are achieving their objectives for cost reduction, customer service, and other metrics,” explains Bruce Tompkins, executive director of the Consortium and author of the report. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/tompkins-international.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

This is also another example of how the lines between 3PLs and technology companies continue to blur. Transplace delivered more than 50 customer solutions in 2012 using the CombineNet sourcing technology, in industries including consumer goods, chemicals, manufacturing, and retail.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Check out the full analysis, for over 600 public companies by peer group in Supply Chains to Admire report.) In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. Rockwell Automation is the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Check out the full analysis, for over 600 public companies by peer group in Supply Chains to Admire report.) In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. Rockwell Automation is the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Foxconn experiencing buyer’s remorse over Wisconsin LCD factory. Uber Freight sourcing truckers to rate shippers. This has led directly to higher rates and/or removed capacity from the worst offenders and companies who refuse to establish themselves as Shippers of Choice. With detention times estimated to exceed $1.1

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 12, 2014

The beauty of LinkedIn  as a source for news is that you can tailor the information to suit your needs. If you discover that you follow a company that no longer shares helpful or pertinent content, simply unfollow them. Here at C.H. Social media channels may come and go but the concept isnt going away.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Discover capability gaps and create sourcing events Seek and discover what capabilities the organization may be lacking, such as vulnerabilities or inefficiencies in transportation or supplier capacity. By identifying these gaps, you can create sourcing events to close them. <br>- Organize sourcing events to address gaps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

No single company is vertically integrated or isolated enough to be able to withstand the barrage of macro-economic challenges that are happening today. There may be several nodes that are critical and single sourced thus elevating the risk profile of the supply chain. This is where AI can make all the difference.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 6, 2015

percent, 491,900 jobs), Wisconsin (16.3 percent), Wisconsin’s 6th (80,000 jobs, 22.6 percent), Wisconsin’s 8th (69,600 jobs, 19.2 percent), and Wisconsin’s 5th (66,200 jobs, 17.9 The top 10 states ranked by manufacturing’s share of total state employment in 2013 are Indiana (16.8 percent, 458,400 jobs), Iowa (14.0

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 13, 2014

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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GlobalTranz

JULY 2, 2015

Recycling and re-using packaging and shipping materials, for example, can make your company leaner and greener. Likewise, you must listen to ideas and input on ways to reduce waste and improve processes regardless of the source.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 14, 2018

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

However, each of these firms expressed that they would benefit from more direct discussions with the BioPreferred Program to find ways to increase the utilization of the label as a default “indicator” to be used in life cycle assessment (LCA) programs similar to the use of sustainable sourced forestry products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2022

As the war rages on in Ukraine, more and more companies and countries are looking at ways they can help with massive humanitarian aid. With new entrants to the market promising 15-minute delivery, it is making companies like Instacart make adjustments. How a global nickel shortage could disrupt the electric vehicle industry.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

Better sourcing processes, how to implement omnichannel fulfilment, and creative solutions for labour shortages. But one thing that still needs to take hold with the e-commerce market is this – E-Commerce brands are no longer just product companies. They’re shipping companies.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Uniform sourcing rules for all taxable transactions. This can have an enormous impact on companies hitting economic nexus thresholds in multiple states. Simplified tax remittances and returns. State administration of sales and use tax collections (no self-collecting local jurisdictions). Uniform state and local tax bases.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 27, 2020

One company doing well during the outbreak is Nestlé, the world’s largest food company. Clark Schultz ( @ClarkSchultz ) notes, “The company’s performance was strong in developed markets amid the pantry-loading behavior of consumers during the shutdowns.”[1] for the first quarter of 2020.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. Strategic Sourcing Shifts Away from China. Basis of Materials Strategic Sourcing. Background. The rest, as they often say, is history.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This week, I spoke at a University of Wisconsin event on responsiveness and ASCM on the future of supply chain planning. Companies would be better served to measure plan adherence, plan quality, and process latency and train their planners while saving the time and energy of thinking about lights-out planning.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on added developments which now indicate that consumer electronics icon Apple is accelerating actions to source the company’s hardware component and assembly production to other countries. Background. What apparently was missing is what specific challenges that entailed.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2021

The official Earth Day web site provides the following history of the Day’s origins: “ Senator Gaylord Nelson, a junior senator from Wisconsin, had long been concerned about the deteriorating environment in the United States. It was tree huggers against companies.

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Resilinc

APRIL 5, 2022

Companies, especially tech companies, are questioning the orthodoxies of the past 50 years [especially] seeking out the lowest-cost manufacturer, no matter how distant, and never carrying surplus inventory or parts.”. Most would not, and companies will follow the customers’ price sensitivities. “I economy relies on. “We

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Resilinc

APRIL 27, 2021

“We’ve learned too well [from the pandemic] that the security and resiliency of supply chains has a direct relationship to our national security,” said Mike Gallagher, a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin and co-leader, with Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin, of the House Armed Services Committee’s Defense Supply Chains Task Force.

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