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The New Retail Paradigm with Ali Raza

The Logistics of Logistics

He has managed onshore/offshore/war zone logistics as well as batch, continuous, and discrete manufacturing setups. Ali joined his first tech startup while still an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. His production teams were responsible for billions of dollars of hydrocarbon output to the global economy.

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The Appointment of Hershey’s First CTO

Supply Chain Matters

The key theme often comes down to not only positioning one’s career but also having a deep understanding and appreciation for the linkage of manufacturing and supply chain capability to enabling business transformation needs and outcomes. ” Added Perspectives We have highlighted this appointment for two reasons.

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Best-Cost vs. Least-Cost Sourcing

Talking Logistics

The “reshoring” of manufacturing operations from China and elsewhere to the United States continues to make headlines. And earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal published an article about how the toy maker K’Nex has moved most of its manufacturing operations from China to its factory in Pennsylvania. Do you agree?

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10 Disruptive Issues in the Supply Chain

American Global Logistics

Most recently, on February 21, 2024, cyber criminals attacked Cencora , a drug distributor in Pennsylvania. Global Trade: Re-shoring, Near-shoring, and Off-shoring Re-shoring, near-shoring, and offshoring are all terms used to describe the movement of manufacturing or production from one country to another. This is due to many factors.

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The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015

GlobalTranz

The 3PL Summit is North America’s largest and most high-level gathering of logistics executives and their manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts. With over 600 attendees, it brings together the leading thinkers and practitioners in logistics and supply chain to network, learn, debate challenges, discuss trends and share ideas.

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

It’s one of our top six trends we’re following in 2019, and we have decades of experience in this area. In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability.

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JDA Software to Present at the 2011 CSCMP Annual Global Conference

Supply Chain Network

(NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, today announced that Fabrizio Brasca, vice president, global logistics, JDA Software, will participate in a panel discussion at the CSCMP Annual Global Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pa. The panel is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. Session Details.