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The Year Ahead with Doug Waggoner

The Logistics of Logistics

Doug is the CEO of Echo Global Logistics , a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. From 1986 to 1998, Waggoner held a variety of positions in sales, operations, marketing, and engineering at Yellow Transportation before becoming Vice President of Customer Service.

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Does Geography Matter in the Digital Age?

Enterra Insights

Academics from the San Diego State University note, “With the rise of the Internet and the new era of globalization, some have argued that the world is flat — geography is dead.”[2] Transportation costs became lower in two ways. ”[2] However, SDSU professor Ming-Hsiang Tsou states, “We disagree with that.”

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Ryder Places First Medium-Duty Electric Vehicle Order with Chanje Energy and Begins to Roll Out Charging Stations

Supply Chain Network

NYSE: R), a leader in commercial fleet management , dedicated transportation , and supply chain solutions , announced today it has started to take delivery of 125 medium-duty electric panel vans, the first of their kind in North America, now available for lease or rent. Miami, November 2, 2017 —Ryder System, Inc. About Ryder. About Chanje.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Cubic Global Tracking.

Global Trade Management

SAN DIEGO, Calif. Cubic’s smart devices can go on moving assets or containerized cargo and provide location, status and sensor information anywhere around the globe. Cubic Corporation is the parent company of three major business segments: Transportation Systems, Defense Systems, and Mission Support Services.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2015

Talking Logistics

Therefore, it’s critically important for supply chain executives to stay informed of these trends and make the time for learning because yesterday’s leading practices might no longer apply and they’ll need to develop and implement new ones to succeed moving forward. Transplace : Shipper Symposium , May 4-6, Dallas, TX. Industry Conferences.

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CSCMP 2011 Recap: The Synergy Supply Chain of the Future

Supply Chain Network

Last year in San Diego we held the very first SCN Tweetup at CSCMP to which 3 people came. Key to this success was very tightly synchronized multi-vendor product and data flows creating significant inbound transport & process savings and service improvements. s but never got off the ground. Jeff Ashcroft.

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ThroughPut Inc. Appoints Global Leader in Product, Advanced Technologies & Big Data Analytics, Dr. Bhaskar Ballapragada, to Chief Technology Architect

ThroughPut

Earlier in his career, Ballapragada was a Senior Process Engineering Consultant with Damon S Williams Associates, where Ballapragada designed the dechlorination Facility for the City of Phoenix Wastewater Treatment Plant , and created the operations manual for the 140 Million Gallons-per-Day City of San Diego Wastewater Treatment Plant.