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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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CONA Services Embraces Supply Chain AI

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2009, The Coca-Cola Company unveiled its 2020 Vision and Roadmap for Winning Together. Its main applications include SAP for backend transactions, Blue Yonder for supply chain management , and Salesforce for sales. Snowflake is their BI environment. This vision encompassed both Coca-Cola and their bottlers.

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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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[INFOGRAPHIC] A Decade of the World’s Supply Chain Champions

GlobalTranz

The company has ranked in the top 25 supply chains since 2009, however, did not reach the top 10 until 2013 where it ranked 10th – due to the scale of products this company creates, is there any surprise that their supply chain is nothing less than the best? Which industry is leading the way overall?

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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.