Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Breakfast sausage, hot dogs and frozen chicken breasts from Tyson Foods are beginning to move autonomously on Gatik AI trucks in Northwest Arkansas. mile route from a small warehouse to a Walmart retail store in Bentonville, Arkansas. The three-year contract could expand nationwide. Gatik has covered a 7.1-mile

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 17, 2023

He is also a regular speaker at leading supply chain universities, including the University of Arkansas Sam M. Ron holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University. Walton Supply Chain College.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Ron holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University and regularly speaks at premier supply chain universities, such as the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton Supply Chain College. About Turvo.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

They are a leading supplier of poultry, pet food and animal nutrition products based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in the US. Any shipment moving from Siloam Springs to Bentonville, Arkansas, for example, would be one lane. Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. An RFP is a data intensive exercise.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mandy comes from a trucking family and she grew up in Van Buren, Arkansas not far from USA Truck’s headquarters. Owner-operators in the trucking business face a myriad of challenges including cash flow issues, high fuel costs, access to good freight, business development, and growing their business. About Mandy Morrow.

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SupplyPike

MAY 30, 2019

When you hear “technology hub”, Arkansas may not be your first thought. But we chose Fayetteville, Arkansas. Why Arkansas? We chose Fayetteville for its growing economy, the amazing talent pool coming out of the University of Arkansas, its proximity to both Fortune 500 companies and other growing startups.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2022

in Transportation and Logistics from Arkansas State University. In 2001, he completed a two-year Six Sigma certification program with General Electric and is a GE certified Black Belt. In June 2009, he became certified as an APICS CSCP. Mark earned a B.S. About Emerge.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Session Speakers: Terry Esper (Moderator), University of Arkansas. Participants will leave the session with a full-spectrum view of social media and how it may or may not contribute to business success. Sessions Room: Room 402. D’Angelo, Volkswagen Group of America. Tom France, Caterpillar Inc. Adrian Gonzalez, Adelante SCM Corp.

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SupplyPike

MAY 15, 2020

For the past twelve years, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal has created a list designed to recognize an exclusive group of 20-something professionals on the fast track to success in the Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith metro areas. Christine started off as a project manager when SupplyPike was a division of CaseStack.

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The Network Effect

JULY 23, 2018

The New Madrid Fault Zone stretches across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee. The post What if the United States broke in half? Is Your Company Ready in the Event of a Catastrophe? appeared first on The Network Effect.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Before that the two will work closely with the current editors Matthew Waller (University of Arkansas) and Stan Fawcett (Weber State University) to facilitate a smooth transition to the new editorial team. I will continue to support the journal and new editors in my function as European Editor.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This week, I travel to Bentonville, Arkansas to facilitate a customer meeting on the use of channel data. The publication of a book takes a couple of years. I have spent a year of weekends hunched over my kitchen table writing, rewriting and writing. It will be great to hold it in my hands!

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

The evolution of Walmart’s supply chain includes three elements, according to a 2012 article from Arkansas Business: distribution practices, operating its own fleet of trucks, and technology. of its sales, or less than half Kmart’s cost and just under a third of what Sears was spending at the time, according to Arkansas Business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

This family-owned business is headquartered in Siloam Springs Arkansas in the US. Simmons Foods’ Approach to Transportation Spend ; Steve Banker Simmons Foods, and its affiliates, are suppliers of poultry, pet, and animal nutrition products. The transportation team supports 13 production facilities.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2016

I was traveling from Northwest Arkansas airport (XNA) back home to Washington Reagan (DCA) and this alert put me into panic mode because I had to be at my home office for an important customer call the following day and knew there were limited flights available. And so has the supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2017

in mathematics from the University of Arkansas. He has an APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) certification, as well as a Retail Supply Chain Certification (RSCC) and received a B.A.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

The service will soon expand to a third Walmart store in the same corner of Arkansas. Walmart delivers a range of products to customers within a 1.5-mile mile radius of two Walmart stores.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2023

In the spring of 2022, Walmart created a new position among the roughly 15,000 employees who work at its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. But Walmart is looking at bikes in a different way.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2024

Tractor Supply Company has gone big in Arkansas, opening its most high-tech distribution center yet. The nation’s largest rural lifestyle retailer has opened its tenth and largest distribution center yet, in Maumelle, Ark.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Numerous carriers across Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and parts of northern Mexico, including the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas are reporting delays, limited operations and/or closures due to blackouts, snow, and ice.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” Zone 5 – South Central (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico): “Expect a chilly Halloween, with increasingly cloudy skies and stormy conditions for Arkansas and Louisiana. Pick a costume that incorporates an umbrella!” Watch out for zombies!”

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SupplyPike

APRIL 14, 2020

SupplyPike always tries to support our community, be it Fayetteville or Northwest Arkansas. We are humbled by this opportunity to play a small part in giving back. We decided to buy these meals from a local restaurant to help our local businesses that have also been affected by this pandemic.”.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 8, 2013

L’Oréal piloted the E2Open Control Tower last autumn in its factory in Little Rock, Arkansas with two vendors. “Now, by using this cloud a vendor has data from all L’Oréal factories in one place and likewise our factories can see all the responses from vendors. Everyone has same version of the truth,” says Markoff. Global ambition.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 29, 2019

Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program (New York Times) Transplace Invests in New Operations Center in Northwest Arkansas Black & Decker Fined $1.8M A New Market Seeks to Draw Freight Bets (WSJ – sub. For Power Tools Sold In Iran. Trucking Futures Trading: Are You Buying?

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SupplyPike

MARCH 3, 2020

Thanks to over 100 attendees from the Northwest Arkansas area, SupplyPike was able to donate $4,000 to Open Avenues, which equates to 100 months worth of transportation to Open Avenues participants. Check out photos from the event on our Facebook page and photobooth.

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BlueYonder

JULY 5, 2023

As part of our “Fearless Females of Supply Chain” Blue Yonder Live series, Blue Yonder’s Chief Customer Officer Susan Beal spoke to Stephanie Powell Thomas , Associate Professor of Practice of SCM at the University of Arkansas and Executive Director of the WISE program. You can watch their conversation here. and globally.

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SupplyPike

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

All proceeds will go to Open Avenues , a local Arkansas non-profit that supports people with disabilities through job/life skills training, community employment, and ADA accessible transportation. SupplyPike Office Coordinator Deborah Pérez joined Univision Arkansas on February 6, 2020 to discuss what to expect at the City of Stars Gala.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 6, 2022

Notifications to employees reportedly began this week in both the Bentonville, Arkansas corporate office and other corporate offices. This week, business and industry media reported that the company now plans to cut, what The Wall Street Journal noted as hundreds of corporate roles in an overall restructuring effort.

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USC Consulting Group

JULY 21, 2020

However, as University of Arkansas’ John Aloysius told Supply Chain Dive, the machine learning algorithms used for forecasting are guided by what consumers have done historically. Since COVID-19 was unprecedented in the Information Age, predictive analytics had nothing to draw from for guidance.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Jada Thomson , a University of Arkansas agricultural economist, told Funk, “There may be some relief coming in egg prices in the next couple months because egg farmers have been steadily replacing their flocks lost to bird flu last year and demand will ease a bit now that people are done with their holiday baking.” ” The Q.ai

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Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 31, 2017

Walmart Looks to Vendors to Help Fund eCommerce Investments, IBM Signs 10 More Food Companies for Pilot Using Blockchain for Extended Supply Chain Visibility, Robotic Sewing Coming to Arkansas

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Ty Findley, managing partner of Ironspring Ventures, conducted a roundtable discussion titled The Next Chapter on Last Mile, with Penny Register-Shaw, chief strategy officer of The FRONTDoor Collective, and Bill Catania, founder and CEO of OneRail, on Tuesday during day two of FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event in Rogers, Arkansas.

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MIT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2014

Similarly, it was difficult to imagine that the small store that Sam Walton opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, would grow to be the largest company in the world by revenue. Twenty years ago who would have thought that a company called Amazon.com that sold books online would grow into one of the world’s top retailers?

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2024

University of Arkansas and University of Tennessee Top the Lists

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 13, 2022

Canoo , which is an Arkansas based company, anticipates starting production of the LDV electric van beginning in Q4, 2022 and reportedly, Walmart will be the first to take initial delivery of these vehicles. Arkansas, reportedly in order to have closer communications. Canoo has further moved its corporate headquarters to Bentonville.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 5, 2020

University of Arkansas Moves Long Time Number 1 Penn State Out of the Top Spot

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BlueYonder

JULY 7, 2017

The massive Pickup Towers, located near store entrances, debuted last year in Bentonville, Arkansas, and are now being rolled out to more than a dozen stores in cities across Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia. First the warehouses, then the roads.

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