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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

My first thank-you note is to the United States military. While we all need to thank-you for helping us to remain free and safe within our borders, for the supply chain leader, it is great to see that something good came out of the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Committed to our purpose, we are downsizing the event.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

This was felt most drastically in the last few years, when such events as 9/11, the war in Iraq, the West Coast port workers’ strike, and increased regulatory and customs delays brought supply chain operations to a standstill. Many recent events illustrate this phenomenon. United States Steel Corp. Microsoft Corp.

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

United States. November the 11 th is Veterans Day in the United States. But it was the Vietnam Memorial that hit me the most; the way it slopes up to a significant height in the middle and then back down, representing time – the duration of the involvement of the United States from the early 1960s through to 1973.

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