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Predict and Prevent Freight Damage with Ilya Preston

The Logistics of Logistics

Prior to his time in consulting, Ilya was a Supply Chain Strategy Manager at Cummins Inc, where he oversaw $100M in spend and was responsible for developing the commodity strategy for sheet metal fabrication and raw metal purchases. Ilya earned a Bachelor of Science in International Business from the University of Indianapolis.

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

It was Wednesday, March 11th and Ken’s Foods had a dilemma. The bigger supply chain challenges were yet to come as the COVID-19 pandemic led to more widespread shelter-in-place requirements throughout the U.S Ken’s Foods started out as a restaurant in Framingham, Massachusetts called Ken’s Steakhouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

” Walmart opened its largest fulfillment center on June 15 outside of Indianapolis. Early this year, it said it would spend $100 million over the next three years to build a larger network of supply chain hubs to support the effort. Food and agriculture companies in the U.S. in McCordsville.