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Jason Miller Blog Post Part 1: Grocery stores aren’t gouging consumers – their costs are going up!

NC State SCRC

Consumers are suffering from sticker shock, a story noted in the local Raleigh news. It is clear to see in this chart that the price increases are less than the associated price increases in inputs (prices from the food manufacturers that are being passed on to grocery stores).

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

Talking Logistics

The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud: A Manufacturing-Centric Supply Chain Operating Network. The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud will bring together real-time data from all of the Volkswagen Group’s 122 manufacturing plants to manage the overall effectiveness of assembly equipment, as well as track parts and vehicles. Why or why not?

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Omni-Channel Supply Chains Are Changing Everything You Ever Learned in School…

Supply Chain View from the Field

A senior executive from a large global manufacturer came to speak in my MBA class this week, and discussed the major shifts in global business that was occurring due to the emergence of omni-channel capabilities in the supply chain. A few of these were discussed in our class last night by this executive.

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Post-mortem on Christmas Logistics Chaos: On Customer Commitments and Transparency

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In speaking with a large manufacturer, I learned of a story where being too quick to be transparent worked against them. We had a huge snow and ice storm in Raleigh last week. Transparency is supposed to be a virtue in such cases, right? Not always. “On December 10, 2014, there was a big hiccup in one of our big supply markets.

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A “Swiss Army Knife” of Supply Chain Talent Requirements: Views from a Former Wolfpack Student

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He then went into global imports for the central purchasing group in Raleigh. The are a regional make to order kitchen cabinet manufacturer, and have two primary sales channels of modular kitchen and bathroom cabinets. He met a colleague who worked at Car Quest, and after several interviews, started there.