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Biogen Idec designs the innovation supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. Supply chain has a big focus on the currency of today’s theories being implemented here.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

The top 10 states ranked by total manufacturing employment in 2013 are California (1,251,400 jobs), Texas (871,700 jobs), Ohio (662,100 jobs), Illinois (579,600 jobs), Pennsylvania (563,500 jobs), Michigan (555,300 jobs), Indiana (491,900 jobs), Wisconsin (458,400 jobs), New York (455,100 jobs), and North Carolina (442,500 jobs).

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I helped create the first North American chapter of BVL International in the Carolinas, and we hosted two meetings at Volvo in North Carolina and Thyssen-Krupp in South Carolina. We just finished hosting over 150 executives at our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, with a theme on Supply Chain Analytics.

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How to implement a supply chain management system

Unleashed

Tech manufacturers in particular can have extraordinarily complex supply chains, with each product line requiring hundreds of tiny components – each sourced from different countries, and purchased in different currencies. Instead, Target chose to use a new system (from SAP) to speed things up. Things didn’t go well.

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Supply Chain Transformation is a Journey not a Destination

Enterra Insights

Experiments with truck platoons (three vehicles, one manned and two autonomous) are currently being conducted in North Carolina. Blockchain technology, first associated with crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, are receiving a lot of press in the supply chain arena. And autonomous cargo ships are also being planned. Blockchain.

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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!” We also look at Turkey, and the problem there is that the currency fluctuations. India – it is a great country to manufacture in but the infrastructure is not quite as developed as China.

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