The Network Effect

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

For 17 years he paid his dues as an assistant coach – first at the University of Minnesota, then with the Steelers, followed by the Kansas City Chiefs, and finally back to Minnesota. Dungy however, had waited and labored hard to get his first big coaching break. His philosophy to coaching was his problem. Ever wonder why?

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Stord

APRIL 7, 2019

For example, Kansas City Southern has accepted trains from other lines that it usually wouldn’t have to accommodate. Macy’s hired its first chief supply chain officer (CSCO) to oversee sourcing, inventory management, distribution, and sustainability.

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Resilinc

JULY 26, 2022

Hungary’s well-connected location puts us much closer to our European customers so that we can fulfil and sustain their needs while remaining at the forefront of innovation,” the company said in a news release. Not coincidentally, the company opened its first in-house European manufacturing facility in Budapest in June.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2023

24 years ago today, I started a new job. 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). Instead, I was told that I would do a market study.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

With a digital twin, you could run scenarios to see how a new distribution center would affect your logistical costs, or how fulfilling an order from your warehouse in Pennsylvania would be more efficient than fulfilling from Kansas. Are you a manufacturer wondering how best to leverage real-time data to elevate your business performance?

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Requis

JANUARY 22, 2021

Affecting climate change is a focus on sustainable practices and one way of getting there is circularity in supply chain. This is going to help us get to a more sustainable future. He holds a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas. I appreciate that.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 24, 2019

Worries about future job sustainability continue to make headlines as automation and artificial intelligence take on more tasks in factories, office spaces, construction sites, and other work places. Some prime age workers, feeling they have no place in this new technology-based world, have simply dropped out of the workforce.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 1, 2018

A more sustainable and efficient urbanscape is well within reach with the development of the internet of things (IoT) and big data analysis.”[2] Environmental, social and economic sustainability is a must to keep pace with this rapid expansion that is taxing our cities’ resources.”[4]. cognitive computing platforms).

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the latest step in Postmaster General Louis Dejoy’s 10-year plan to reach financial sustainability, the U.S. Using unconventional, organic materials such as seaweed and mushrooms, forward-thinking companies are bringing sustainable solutions to a wasteful supply chain. Cost Saving Measures Push U.S. million metric tons. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2021

A lot of this effort comes down to more sustainable sourcing, which tends to make environmental-conscious consumers happy. Starbucks to improve sustainable coffee sourcing. More and more food and beverage manufacturers and retailers are looking to increase their sustainability efforts, and Starbucks is no exception.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 3, 2021

In March of this year, the railroads Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern announced they had entered into a merger agreement. An inhibitor to integrating Mexico into North American supply chains is a lack of efficient transportation links, but there is some good news on this front too.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 3, 2015

Mark Bogucki, our general manager in Kansas City, recently announced he would retire at the end of 2015. The spirit of the definition of an exempt commodity was anything that was time sensitive—like produce, which cannot sustain a long transit time on a truck. Since joining C.H.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 21, 2023

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. percent from the previous year, Amazon said in its annual sustainability report, published on Tuesday. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a June 2021 Harvard Business Review article and in this blog , Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers argued that more robust and sophisticated Pan-American supply networks are critical destinations on the roadmap to drive greater resilience, sustainability and agility in U.S. supply chains. now depends.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

The common theme of the last year-and-a-half has been how to redesign supply chains for greater sustainability and resilience,” said Vakil. The Mexico-US-Canada rail network envisioned in the pending merger of Kansas City Southern with Canadian National would help. To support “Buy American,” buy Pan American.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 5, 2021

The governors urging the change are from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, South Carolina, Alabama, and Missouri. It would go toward vehicle electrification, sustainable energy, and carbon sequestration, which is the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide. And where would that $2 billion go?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Instead, he will lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into battle against the Kansas City Chiefs in the 55 th modern Super Bowl. As the focus on sustainability initiatives continues to grow, more and more companies are looking at electric vehicles and alternative energy sources to reduce carbon footprints.

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