Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

I live in West Virginia. Mexico has become more attractive, and many companies are looking at alternative sourcing in Latin and South America. As a result, we will have to stock fewer and fewer parts. And, the service supply chain can be redesigned to have less inventory and more uptime. Let me give you an example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2024

The neighboring port in Norfolk Virginia and other east coast ports like New York City can absorb the additional traffic without many complications or delays, but this incident provides an opportunity to discuss the importance of supply chain resilience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Jassy wrote: “I’m also optimistic that this shift will provide a boost for the thousands of businesses located around our urban headquarter locations in the Puget Sound, Virginia, Nashville, and the dozens of cities around the world where our employees go to the office.” ” And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2017

I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. The confluence of new technologies–additive manufacturing, blockchain, cloud computing, cognitive computing, Internet of Things, open source analytics, robotics, sensors, and wearables– along with process possibilities is driving a new call to action. Amazon bought Whole Foods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

In total, the company will source enough renewable energy in Europe to power the equivalent of more than two million homes a year. As of June 2020, Amazon sourced about 42 percent of its global energy needs from renewables. The series of deals in the US, UK, Sweden, Spain, and Canada will add more than 1.5

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Walmart previously scaled back its drone deliveries in 2024, when it ended the service in Utah, Arizona and Florida, in favor of focusing on remaining operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas and Virginia. A year later, the retailer added drone deliveries to its app for DFW customers.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Source: NWS. Light ice accumulation in parts of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Piedmont of northern North Carolina and southern Virginia could cause hazardous driving conditions. A powerful winter storm will begin hitting the Pacific Northwest on Friday, February 12th, and is expected to move across the southern U.S.

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QAD

APRIL 9, 2025

This is compounded by the fact that many raw materials are sourced from a limited number of suppliers and regions. Beyond the well-documented API sourcing problems, shortages in excipients, packaging materials (including vials and syringes), and electronic components for medical devices also contribute to delays.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 24, 2025

According to reporting from Bloomberg citing internal employee sources ( Paid subscription ), these mandates are being communicated in one-on-one meetings or town hall meetings. Corporate level workers were told to relocate to certain facilities in specific cities and offices such as Arlington Virginia , Seattle Washington or Washington DC.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 7, 2020

Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. Traditionally, supply chains have been conceived and managed as a discrete sequence of activities, from design, plan, and source to make, deliver, and return. After that he launched his career in academia.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 13, 2013

UPS Freight is based in Richmond, Virginia. The latest addition to this portfolio includes LTL and truckload freight services, which complements UPS’s global capabilities to provide customers a single source for multiple modes of transportation. in sales (estimated 2012). UPS Freight has 6.9% had $54.1B in sales in 2012.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

When I was a small child growing up in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States, on snowy days, my family would gather around the kitchen table and play board games. One of my favorites was the board game Risk. It was a turn-based board game introduced in the 1950(s). This increases risk. Figure 1: Bullwhip Impact.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2019

It plans to begin routine deliveries of small consumer items in two rural communities in Virginia within months, the company said. The subsidiary…now has the same certifications that smaller airlines receive from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

According to the press release: Transplace leverages the CombineNet ASAP® advanced e-sourcing technology as part of its expert solutions, helping customers develop and optimize their carrier strategy for procurement events involving truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL), and intermodal needs.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Alphabet Drones to Deliver Burritos as Part of Test at Virginia Tech (WSJ – sub. Source: https://www.oracle.com/us/assets/logfire-general-presentation-3211400.pdf. JDA Powers the Always-on Supply Chain with Latest JDA Manufacturing Planning Release. Descartes Reports Fiscal 2017 Second Quarter Results.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 11, 2024

Missed opportunities are another equal source of extraordinary risk. .”[5] They add, “Some high-consequence, low-likelihood risks have to do with business strategy, such as those posed by the digital disruption; operational risks are another category and include serious quality-control failures in manufacturing.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Jodie grew up in Western North Carolina and graduated from Virginia Tech with a Master’ of Science in Crop & Soil Environmental Science. Jodie started out as a contractor at Philip Morris, a subsidiary of Altria, out of graduate school, working in the Leaf division of the company, which sources tobacco for Philip Morris.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

I was able to listen to Christopher Nassetta, the CEO of HIlton Worldwide, speak to his team of global supply managers in MacLean Virginia this morning. Hilton Supply Management is tasked with providing strategic sourcing capabilities to both managed and franchised locations globally.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Recently, Rob Anthony, SVP Global Supply Chain and UK Country Manager at Kongsberg, and Virginia Gonzalez, Head of Procurement at Boston Beer Company, sat down in an exclusive session with JAGGAER to share their insights and methods on streamlining category complexity. Successful companies make this look easy.

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 31, 2021

warehousing, manufacturing logistics, fulfillment, rework), these transportation services can streamline and simplify operations by using Kanban as a single source distribution partner. For imports arriving at the Port of Virginia or the Port of Wilmington, Kanban can perform drayage and container stripping services.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Derailed CSX train in West Virginia hauled newer-model tank cars ( Reuters ). Version 11.0 of Continuous Move Planner (CMP) and Paradox Routing Tool (PART) Now Available. UNIT45 and Globe Tracker Partner on Smart Refrigerated Container Offering. Transport for London to accelerate workforce planning with Quintiq.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 7, 2020

Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. Traditionally, supply chains have been conceived and managed as a discrete sequence of activities, from design, plan, and source to make, deliver, and return. After that he launched his career in academia.

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Jaggaer

MAY 12, 2020

Sourcing automation. Sourcing Strategy Advisor. The new sourcing platform brings us the opportunity to connect data much better and generate new value-adding information for our internal business partners.” – Head of Regional Procurement, DPDHL. Self-maintained data quality. Intelligent Procurement. Requisition automation.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating to Uncover New Sources of Revenue in the Public Sector. Step 1: Use eProcurement Systems as a Potential Source of Revenue. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. 11 state central procurement offices have other sources of funding.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Many sources are warning that Florence will be the most intense storm to strike the region in at least 25 years, since Hurricane Hugo, which was a Category 4 and sustained winds of 140 mph. Over 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate in the Carolinas and Virginia. click to zoom]. Evacuations and Shutdowns.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

And if most of your production happens in FL, you may choose to divert sourcing to your secondary facility, say in New Jersey, during heavy produce shipping season months to avoid the heightened costs. Expect to deal with capacity sourcing and pricing fluctuations beginning in August through September. West Virginia.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

East ( Northern Virginia ), U.S. Specific customers already utilizing this B2B supply chain platform were identified as kitchenware and tableware products provider Lifetime Brands , grills and barbeque products provider Traeger Grills , and Amazon’s owned natural food and grocery chain Whole Foods. Announcement Significance.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Many sources are warning that Florence will be the most intense storm to strike the region in at least 25 years, since Hurricane Hugo, which was a Category 4 and sustained winds of 140 mph. Over 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate in the Carolinas and Virginia. click to zoom]. Evacuations and Shutdowns.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

Graves indicated in an interview with Bloomberg that the combined entity will have a “ focus on building a supply chain in the Americas, as US automakers look for non-Chinese sources of the battery metal. The firm is headquartered in Portland, Oregon , with offices in Ashburn, Virginia , Rochester, New York and Barcelona, Spain.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 21, 2020

A strategic consideration for many firms is that sourcing from China also offers them access to the ever-growing and ever-spending domestic Chinese consumer market. Access to China’s Mass Consumer Market. Wealth of Professional Talent. Government policy.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 27, 2016

I had the opportunity to attend the Procurement Leaders in San Francisco forum two weeks ago, followed by attending the ISM Carolinas-Virginia meeting in Winston Salem last week. Procurement is increasingly taking on the role of being able to become the “source of truth” for data – and enabling other functions with data.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 12, 2022

They include energy sources your company purchased for its use, such as electric car refueling, electricity for the building, and similar types. and the top of Virginia. Examples include vehicles, which are mobile emissions, and manufacturing, which fall under process emissions. These need to be reported.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2024

It must move its corporate headquarters from Virginia back to Seattle — a symbolic but meaningful return to the community that once made aerospace history, in a good way.” Boeing itself has produced a dedicated web page to inform interested parties on the progress of these negotiations. locations rather than Puget Sound.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating to Uncover New Sources of Revenue in the Public Sector. Step 1: Use e Procurement Systems as a Potential Source of Revenue. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. 11 state central procurement offices have other sources of funding.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 19, 2021

RoadOne IntermodaLogistics, a single source intermodal, distribution and logistics services company, announced the acquisition of DDI Transportation, a 38-year-old drayage and trucking business, based in Ashland, Virginia.

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