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Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014

Talking Logistics

Talent Management as the Core of a Supply Chain Strategy. Ellen shared a great example: Women in Trucking recently awarded its first ever “Transportation Patch” to 84 Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana , ages 5-12, who spent half a day at Olive-Harvey College learning about the transportation industry from experts.

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NC State’s Poole College of Management JUMPS in the rankings – and we need your support!

Supply Chain View from the Field

The full ranking is available on the Bloomberg Businessweek website , where you will find the Jenkins MBA among some of the best and well-established programs nationwide – NYU (24), USC (25), Georgetown (26), Brigham Young (27) and Indiana (28). 45 nationwide.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

Nestle has partnerships with ADM and Ardent Mills, the two primary wheat flour suppliers for DiGiorno products, to support wheat farms in Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota and Indiana. According to WIT, the number of women drivers has been growing in recent years, in line with overall industry demand to recruit more drivers to the field.