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Amplify Your Supply Chain While Capitalizing on your IT Infrastructure

Logility

Ampacet Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer of the pelletized pigments that add colors to plastics. The company spans the globe with 12 manufacturing sites on four continents. Now Smith manages a whole network of Logility solutions from his home office in Indiana without the need to replace existing systems.

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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

The vehicle will make its inaugural trip from Indiana to California, where it will be featured at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo. But I believe that more efficient packaging is the area with the greatest potential to improve sustainability metrics within the warehouse. CMA CGM is offering 5 billion euros ($5.48

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10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time

Supply Chain Opz

Therefore, the challenge to establish ranking method is to find more economical data source and unbiased metric. Stanford University, Northwestern University, University of California, Berkley and Indiana University are usually ranked in top MBA programs (Tier 1) by US News College Ranking.

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Data, Cognitive Technology, and Industry 4.0

Enterra Insights

Patrick Murphy ( @PMurphy_Work ), partner and practice leader in cognitive manufacturing, at IBM, asserts, “The average factory produces more than a terabyte’s worth of information every day.”[2] That warehouse is a good analogy for how Murphy sees data collection in manufacturing. Big data and manufacturing.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

294 manufacturing facilities produced more than 90 million metric tons of food and beverage in 2021. The long-term agreement will initially enroll corn, soy and wheat farmers across Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Nebraska, with the opportunity for future expansion. PepsiCo’s Internal Supply Chain.

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Hedging Raw Materials Can Backfire!

Operations and Supply Chain Management

million this year for 800,000 metric tons of wood pellets that will only fetch $156.9 Enviva started building a pellet manufacturing and export network in 2010 with financing from Riverstone. Still, Enviva’s most pressing problem is a single bad trade. million on the open market. Write to Ryan Dezember at ryan.dezember F.