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Like the Mississippi River Through New Orleans, Today’s CPG Market is Quickly Changing Directions

QAD

Twisting and turning, changing directions quickly, the Mississippi River winds down the center of the U.S. This session will highlight some of the current trends in consumer products and food & beverage today. through New Orleans and out into the Gulf of Mexico. The Next Generation of Demand Planning: Intelligent and Real-Time.

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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part Two: Climate Risks

Enterra Insights

The historic drought that afflicted the Mississippi, which carries nearly 500 million tons of cargo per year, required dredging of shipping channels to keep the barges moving.”[5] ”[5] Rising Seas Obviously.

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Shipping Industry Lows Foil High Expectations

Intelligent Audit

In an industry that’s always moving, here are the latest news and trend updates to keep you in the know. Logistics Experts Warn that Drought-Plagued Mississippi Could Threaten American Exports. FreightWaves reports: “ Water levels on the Mississippi River Basin are at (their) lowest point in more than a decade.

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Severe weather causes freight rates to slip

DAT Solutions

The highways are open now, but there are still flood warnings in six states: Nebraska, parts of neighboring South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota, plus eastern Arizona and western Mississippi. VAN TRENDS. REEFER TRENDS. Like van, reefer trends have not turned upward yet. The van load-to-truck ratio declined last week to 1.6

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Tale as Old as Time: Logistics Innovation Vs. Tried-and-True Strategy

Intelligent Audit

While drone service has been accessible in other nations for some time, “ a stringent US federal regulatory system has contributed to a lag in adopting the new technology domestically; Intermountain’s program is the first of its kind west of the Mississippi ,” the Desert News reported. .

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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. Mississippi. “What are your customer, partner, regulatory, and vendor expectations?”. Are you meeting those expectations? The great news about supply chain compliance is that AB&R® makes it a breeze. District of Columbia.

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Talk Doesn’t Cook the Rice

Supply Chain Shaman

As they say in Mississippi, “Talk doesn’t cook the rice.” The sharing of performance on the Supply Chain Effective Frontier helps companies to understand their performance against their peer group and the overall trends of the market. It seems like yesterday that I transitioned to become an industry analyst.

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