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This Week in Logistics News (August 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

In a recent report, IEA indicated that global battery and mineral supply chains need to expand ten-fold to meet projected critical minerals needs by 2030. It covers 37 states and parts of Canada through a fleet of more than 150,000 crowd-sourced drivers, it says. 7-Eleven Inc.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2015

Talking Logistics

Last January, I shared 5 New Year’s Resolutions for supply chain and logistics executives to improve as leaders. As I wrote last year: According to leadership expert Ken Blanchard, “when you stop learning, you stop leading,” and this is especially true in supply chain management.

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Insights from the C-Suite: Supply Chain People Are Making a Difference in the World

Material Handling & Logistics

The biggest challenge for supply chain professionals today is the is the accelerated pace of change, according to APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi. Since 2006, Abe Eshkenazi has served as CEO of APICS, a trade association focused on offering research, education and certification programs in supply chain management.

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Church's Chicken is Reinventing the Supply Chain

Elementum

Excellent supply chain management is the key to both. Being able to handle product development, sourcing, production, logistics, and information systems well is what makes a business’s supply chain successful. In turn, only 8% of companies with secondary or ordinary supply chains achieve above-average growth.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon’s SAT1 fulfillment center in San Antonio, Texas is the first to deploy Titan in its operations. Supply chain problems, towering global demands for weapons and the need to work with allies to get it all done means that the America First movement should wait. military hardware to be made in America.