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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. For example, change the business models so that Ariba must interoperate with GT Nexus, E2Open with Elemica, MPO (Kinaxis) with Nulogy, etc. Mandate Unique Identifiers.

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Parcels' role in Intermodal Rail

Cathy Roberson

Much has already been written on the potential financial impact of a strike such as higher food prices. According to the Association of American Railroads (AAR), the estimated cost of a nationwide freight railroad shutdown is more than $2 billion a day. This will add additional costs to UPS’ bottom line should that happen.