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Origins of the Local Food Systems Movement in North Carolina

Supply Chain View from the Field

We kicked off our first class on “Local Food Systems” today, with a strong cadre of students from the MBA program, from agroecology, agriculture, and other areas. Nancy Creamer, Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems , kicked the class off with an overview of the history of the local food movement.

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3 Questions from Your Future Supply Chain Talent

Logistics Viewpoints

Students want to know that your company understands the trends and challenges that were already reshaping supply chains and has a vision for how to address them. But given the proliferation of ERP systems due to M&A and the endurance of legacy systems in supply chain, this will not be the world many will meet.

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3PL order fulfillment: dealing with minimum charges

Kanban Logistics

If you are searching for 3PL order fulfillment companies in North Carolina, or anywhere, you may come up against “minimums.” In this article, we’ll examine order fulfillment minimums and explain how to best navigate them. These minimum requirements can be a non-starter for smaller companies just ramping up their volumes.

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As Baby Boomers Retire, Don’t Let Tribal Knowledge Retire with Them

Enterra Insights

The challenge, of course, is how to capture and leverage tribal knowledge. A good cognitive computing system, like the Enterra Enterprise Cognitive System ( Aila ®), can help. Enterra’s cognitive computing system uses the world’s largest common sense ontology to perform its semantic reasoning and argumentation functionality.

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Who is the Supply Chain Planner in the Age of AI?

Logistics Viewpoints

AI and machine learning (the subset of techniques most in use in business today) figure prominently on the agenda, as companies want to improve forecast accuracy with demand sensing, predict yields and lead times, optimize inventory, get recommendations on how to respond to disruptions, and more.

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More on the importance of human relationships in local food systems

Supply Chain View from the Field

Ben Filippo is Food System Coordinator for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, a farmer driven membership based 501c3 non profit organization to help people in the Carolinas grow and eat locally. We help people think about the implications of state and local policy and how they impact the Southeast.”

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USDA Funds NC State Study: Integrating North Carolina’s small farmers and producers in the global food supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) in North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management is one of several partners in a five- year, $3.9 million grant-funded project to build and evaluate supply chains for local farmers and fishers to supply large-scale markets in North Carolina.