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Economic Aspects of Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

Understanding the Economic Impact of Supply Chains In a report titled "Understanding the Economic Impact of North Carolina's Supply Chain: Conduit for Prosperity and Economic Development," researchers Dana Magliola, Lindsay Schilleman, and John Elliott shed light on the economic impact of supply chains in North Carolina.

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SCRC Innovation and Social Responsibility Supply Index: A Critical Input to “Drucker Management Top 250 List”

NC State SCRC

This required a comparison unigram and bigram feature settings, three text summarization techniques (full text, paragraph extraction and sentence extraction), and two different support vector machine approaches (one-against-one and one-against-all) on balanced and imbalanced datasets.

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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

The largest impacts start in the South and move their way up the US latitudinally – think Florida to Georgia to North Carolina, and Texas to California to Washington to Oregon. Although the state’s farms produce more corn and grains, by comparison , its fruit crop poses the most disruption to the logistics market.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

According to an article published in FreightWaves , “ Tender volumes are racing to the upside and are tracking positive year-over-year in May, albeit off of a depressed 2019 comparison. North Carolina ? . Shippers should not expect difficulty in North Carolina.?? . North Dakota ? .

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

This study may be useful to all analytics-driven managers because studies comparing companies against each other often fail to find suitable metrics that provide an apple-to-apple comparison. True, 10-K ’s andother standard financial filings provide metrics that are often used when comparing performance between companies.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

We were surprised to find that many states with the highest Location Quotients were not states that are typically associated with the biofuels economy, including Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Maine, and others.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

It is not so much the application of a tariff, or even leaving NAFTA, but more like “North Carolina leaving the United States!” In making contry of orgin comparisons, there are often a lot of ignored factors in other countries that come into play.

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