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The Revenue Engine with Kara Smith Brown

The Logistics of Logistics

Her successful corporate career started at Echo Global Logistics where she played a key role in its ascent to a market leader and celebrated IPO in 2009. In 2017 Kara leveraged her prior corporate experience to launch LeadCoverage, a strategy consultancy addressing all elements of the B2B sales conversion cycle for supply chain companies.

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Supply Chains Are Still Constrained by Geography

Enterra Insights

Back in 2009, I wrote, “We have all heard someone say, ‘The world is getting smaller.’ 2] Stephen DeAngelis, “ The Importance of Geography ,” Enterra Insights, 13 January 2009. [3] ” Over the past 15 years, I’ve written a few articles stressing the importance of geography. 4] Diego A.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

The details: 2001-Acquired Clairol for 4.9B$ 2002-Divestiture of Jif and Crisco to Smuckers–813M in Stock 2003-Acquisition of Wella for 7B$ 2005-Merger with Gilette for 57B$ 2008-Purchase of Nioxin for 300M$ 2009-Purchased Art of Shaving for 60M$ 2009-purchased ZIRH for 40M. Discontinued in 2011.

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Scaling a FreightTech Business with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

In June 2009, he became certified as an APICS CSCP. In 2017, Mark was awarded the Supply Chain and Demand Chain Executive “Pro To Know”. In 2001, he completed a two-year Six Sigma certification program with General Electric and is a GE certified Black Belt. Mark earned a B.S. in Transportation and Logistics from Arkansas State University.

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Social Network Analysis in Supply Chain Management

SCM Research

It is time to take a closer look at Borgatti & Li’s (2009) important article: On Social Network Analysis in a Supply Chain Context. The article has become part of the canon of SCM literature since its publication and it is now a mandatory reading in many SCM master programs across the globe. Borgatti, S.P. & & Li, X.

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Lead Gen for Logistics with Kara Brown

The Logistics of Logistics

Kara was one of the first employees at Echo Global Logistics which grew quickly in three years and her name is on the company’s 2009 IPO press release. In 2017 after a successful corporate career including SEKO Logistics, OHL (now Geodis), and Rubicon Global, she partnered with Will Haraway, another industry veteran, to start LeadCoverage.

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On Tony Hsieh, Customer Experience, and Logistics Outsourcing

Talking Logistics

But one of the first companies, particularly in the e-commerce era, to embed customer experience in its culture and leverage it as a competitive differentiator was Zappos (which Amazon acquired in 2009. Read more On Tony Hsieh, Customer Experience, and Logistics Outsourcing.

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