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Warehousing News Roundup: April 8, 2019

Stord

True Value is investing $150 million in upgrades to its supply chain that will cover a new distribution center in Pennsylvania, ordering software, and more. Ports across the country are updating their progress on clean air goals for both rail and truck transportation. This number fell by 5.4%

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What Supply Chain Risks are Threatening Your Company?

Enterra Insights

”[1] The report focused on four key metrics: supplier criticality, supplier financial risk, global sourcing risk, and foreign exchange risk. If you are an upstream supplier or a downstream retailer, different metrics must also be considered. But visibility goes far beyond tracing and tracking. It’s a lot to keep track of.

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Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars

ThroughPut

Ali holds a BSE & MSE from the University of Pennsylvania in Chemical Biomolecular Engineering with concentrations in Pharmaceutics & Biotechnology. How do I start using my existing operations data metrics like cycle time, uptime to help create operational benefits for my teams? to measure and track my bottlenecks?

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Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars

ThroughPut

Ali holds a BSE & MSE from the University of Pennsylvania in Chemical Biomolecular Engineering with concentrations in Pharmaceutics & Biotechnology. How do I start using my existing operations data metrics like cycle time, uptime to help create operational benefits for my teams? to measure and track my bottlenecks?

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Customers Want to Be Treated Royally

Enterra Insights

Toms ( @SarahEToms ), from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, most companies are deluding themselves about how customer-centric they really are. ” Mistake 3: Your metrics focus only on volume and cost. Instead, it focused on exciting and delighting its customers.”[2] ”[3].