Supply Chains Rock
JANUARY 5, 2009
How would you ship 500 trees to Iraq? Basically, her organization worked with a nursery and collected 400 trees from Long Island, New York and 100 from California and had them shipped via DHL to the US troops in Iraq. Public Policy & Sustainability Blog. Subscribe To. Monday, January 05, 2009. By plane, of course.
NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 13, 2021
In an earlier blog , I explained how the SCRC supply chain index was formed, and how it provides meaningful insights into the Innovation and Sustainability categories of the WSJ index, by assessing the level of innovation and sustainability within an organization’s supply chain.
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Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016. There will be a lot less air shipped in boxes, trailers, and containers next year.
GlobalTranz
JANUARY 12, 2015
Remember, realism & optimism breed sustainability!). With the rise in global crude oil production and relative political stability in the major oil producing nations, particularly Iraq and Libya, the price of crude oil has fallen from above $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel in just a year. Drop in the price of crude oil.
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
Because the team is much more self-managed, managers move from being reactionary problem-solvers to strategic, proactive thinkers providing sustainable solutions. He then led the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) for Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) in Iraq and Kuwait. Employee and Customer Benefit.
ThroughPut
MARCH 3, 2020
Sitting with Board Members and Investors in New York City, I had just seen the first news about the Yokohama ship. During the meeting, my attention was on the cruise ship not too far from me in the bay, and how the infected were being treated there.
NC State SCRC
JUNE 15, 2021
This was felt most drastically in the last few years, when such events as 9/11, the war in Iraq, the West Coast port workers’ strike, and increased regulatory and customs delays brought supply chain operations to a standstill. Companies best prepared to manage inflation ahead. Supply Market Intelligence (Category Management Index).
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