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Accenture Study Provides Evidence of Supply Chain Resiliency Actions

Supply Chain Matters

Newly Released Accenture Study Last week, global consulting firm Accenture released findings of a titled survey: Resiliency in the making- Turning adversity into advantage for engineering, supply, production and operations. Readers can access or download this study by accessing the Accenture report’s designated web page. Stay tuned.

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The Backorder, March 20 2024

Unleashed

A study of over 2,000 adults found that 21% plan to prioritise gut health in 2024, 74% plan to consume more high-fibre food and drinks, and 86% of shoppers surveyed want to improve overall digestive health.” To relax, I read Adam Gnade : he’s a modern day John Steinbeck out of San Diego and living on a farm in Kansas.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the last six years, Class I freight railroads — which include BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Kansas City Southern Railway, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific — have hemorrhaged a combined 45,000 workers, according to the Surface Transportation Board. That’s nearly 29 percent of their workforce. To combat the problem, the Kroger Co.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 17, 2023)

Talking Logistics

Instead, I was told that I would do a market study. I arrived at the office expecting to start a research project related to the semiconductor industry (where I had spent most of my career at that point, and what I had been hired to do).

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This Week in Logistics News (September 12-16, 2016)

Talking Logistics

If so, I invite you to attend two of the sessions that I am participating in, both related to transportation management: TMS 4 SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt. Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City (Kansas City Star). Date: Monday, September 26, 2:00-3:15 pm. Room: Sun 3-4.

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

There was no line in the bathroom at the Kansas City CLM conference in 2001, but there will be at the CSCMP conference in San Antonio in 2013. Today, based on our studies, women compose about 43% of the supply chain workforce. As always, we would love your insights on our research studies. I was on the cusp of the transition.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

In these veins, we wanted to highlight for Supply Chain Matters readers two recently published research studies that we believe provide added evidence of such shifts.