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What’s Driving the Increase in Transportation Management Technology Spend?

Talking Logistics

Figure 1: Transportation IT Spend Change Next 2 Years (Source: Descartes). Figure 2: Top 4 Regulatory/Industry Changes (Source: Descartes). Figure 3: Top 3 Business Drivers for Expanded TMS Use (Source: Descartes). Figure 4: Primary Obstacle to TMS Investment (Source: Descartes). Hot competition, economies and costs.

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Supplier Sustainability Assessment ? Where Do I Start?

SupplyShift

Define the Data You Need Before you can start on your sustainable sourcing journey, your company needs to figure out exactly what data it needs. Do suppliers provide any adjacent data in your sourcing platforms? Supplier data will influence sustainability reports and announcements, supplier reviews, and supplier seminars.

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Supplier Sustainability Assessment ? Where Do I Start?

SupplyShift

Before you can start on your sustainable sourcing journey, your company needs to figure out exactly what data it needs. Start by evaluating the needs of your industry, business, products, and sourcing practices—ask yourself what your sustainability hotspots are likely to be and what types of issues might be prevalent for them.

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Mayor Taps Leamer for Mexico Delegation - UCLA Anderson School.

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

International Food Fest Brings Flavor of Diversity to Anderson » 03/03/2014. Mexico is the Los Angeles area’s second-largest export market and one of Los Angeles County’s largest sources of foreign direct investment. UCLA Anderson Hosts Steinbeck Family Business Seminar. Bhagwan Chowdhry @ Huffington Post. billion in 2010.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

It consolidated Cargill’s global animal feed production and strengthened its internal supply chain capacity for food production and processing. I split this off from global sourcing because we had plenty of buyers but not enough planning and logistics so service and documentation was failing.

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Start Your Business’ Sustainability Journey in 5 Steps!

Supply Chain Game Changer

For example, if you plan on tapping into renewable energy sources, ask around for providers and contractors so you can get an idea of how much you’ll need to raise for that endeavor. The same goes if you want to learn more about other power sources such as geothermal, wind, biomass, and hydropower.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

In particular, the company has been criticized for its long-time practice of using local water sources for its products. At the end of the slideshow, you’ll also find links to our analyses of previous years’ rankings. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. Media Type.

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