Tompkins Blog

JANUARY 15, 2014

Supply Chain Risk in China: Focus on. Supply chain executives in the US and Europe nervously listen to news out of Asia about factory fires, typhoons and labor disputes. impacts on their supply chains, they think through their contingency plans and wish they had more visibility. Develop scenarios and contingency plans.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 14, 2013

Our next SCRC meeting will focus on “The Future of Procurement”, and will be held on April 29-30, at the NC State University Club in Raleigh, NC. Sometimes the sources of value are right in front of us, and we need to be more aware of the obvious, and less focused on cost savings derived from price reductions.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 2, 2016

The Sun Belt is hot for vans , as high demand and a shortage of trucks turned the map red across the southern band of states. In the South Central region, Houston is the biggest source of flatbed loads, and rates rose 30¢ to $2.38 Outbound rates are moving up in Raleigh, NC, and there’s lots of freight available.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 15, 2016

Jacksonville is also going strong, with big rate increases on the lanes to Miami up 13¢, and to New Orleans , up 40¢ Rates are rocketing up in Raleigh , after a down month. Four major lanes out of Raleigh had double-digit increases last week. Reefers Gear Up for Produce Season. The head haul rate from L.A. You can do better.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 4, 2016

Also, when demand slacks off for van and reefer freight, there are more trucks available. Hot Markets include: Jacksonville, Savannah, Raleigh, and Roanoke. You can always find a flatbed load out of Houston, but it’s hard to find anything like the same opportunity going back to Houston from any location.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 11, 2020

The paper is an attempt to create some logic in the fact of the chaotic healthcare supply chain events currently underway. Resilience is often one of the first things to emerge in any debate on how we arrived at the point we are today in the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as it applies to supply chain management.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 12, 2016

He started in supply planning, overseeing over $100M of spend in batteries and other categories. He then went into global imports for the central purchasing group in Raleigh. This was a lot of planning, a lot of analytics, and a lot of work. Marsh did not have centralized approach to supply chain management.

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