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Supply Chain Risk in the Age of Big Data

Enterra Insights

Megginson, a Louisiana State University business professor, stated, “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”[1] Footnotes. [1]

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Inbound Rates Rise for Louisiana Flood Relief

DAT Solutions

It won't surprise anyone to learn that rates rose sharply on inbound lanes heading into Southern Louisiana last week. Average rates from New Orleans to Baton Rouge rose only 14% in the past week, however, according to RateView data. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Leake, August 15 2016. Shreveport to Baton Rouge.

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Building the Future of Your Supply Chain

QAD

QAD Explore 2019, the company’s premier customer conference connecting its global community of leading manufacturers, recently took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was a pleasure to attend. Modern-day planners are bombarded with large volumes of both historical and real-time data.

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ShipBob’s 2023 BFCM Data: See How Brands Performed This Black Friday Cyber Monday Weekend

ShipBob

[The data points shared in this post were also featured on CNBC.] This data is across thousands of ecommerce merchants, tens of thousands of unique products sold, millions of shipments, and billions in revenue. Louisiana (+21%) Going the Distance Ecommerce brands went to great lengths to deliver BFCM orders this year – literally.

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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

While investigators traced the heads of lettuce from the prison back to a Yuma business called Harrison Farms, “they haven’t been able to reconstruct the path of the chopped lettuce that made people sick from Washington state to Louisiana to Connecticut,” McKenna writes. a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”.

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What About Them Apples?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today hurricane Nate’s north winds are pushing against the bayous of Louisiana. They need accurate and timely channel data. In today’s architectures, there is no place to put outside-in data like VMI, Point of Sale (POS) or rating/review data. Won’t we have the same issue for Internet of Things data?

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Did The Barbie Movie Cause a Worldwide Pink Paint Shortage? The Supply Chain Explanation 

Resilinc

Meanwhile, Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana in August of 2020 with Hurricane Zeta coming a month later. With over 12 years of supplier-validated data in our database, there’s a good chance we have already mapped many of your suppliers’ suppliers.