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How Supply Chain Best Practice Metrics Can Predict the NFL Super Bowl

Kinaxis

We are down to the final four teams: Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts and the Green Bay Packers. So, I decided to use supply chain best practice metrics to predict the Super Bowl participants, and the ultimate winner. Indianapolis Colts. Indianapolis Colts. Indianapolis Colts.

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Celadon Trucking Implements Load Analyzer and Improves Service and Profitability

Logistics Viewpoints

They are headquartered in Indianapolis in the US and they offer a range of dry van truckload transportation services including long-haul, regional, local […].

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

The bigger supply chain challenges were yet to come as the COVID-19 pandemic led to more widespread shelter-in-place requirements throughout the U.S With no plants overseas, Ken’s Foods was spared the early supply chain ripple effect related to COVID-19 in Asia and Europe. Director of Supply Chain at Ken’s Foods.

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Predict and Prevent Freight Damage with Ilya Preston

The Logistics of Logistics

Prior to his time in consulting, Ilya was a Supply Chain Strategy Manager at Cummins Inc, where he oversaw $100M in spend and was responsible for developing the commodity strategy for sheet metal fabrication and raw metal purchases. Ilya earned a Bachelor of Science in International Business from the University of Indianapolis.

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Blockchain: Reflections on a Webinar

Supply Chain Shaman

Yesterday, I spoke at the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Leaders Forum on innovation. I asked the audience for a show of hands to understand how many of the supply chain leaders in the room were testing blockchain. The Supply Chain Insights webinar series is designed as an educational forum for learning.

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Stord Partners with IPG to Launch New Warehouse Collaboration After Centralizing eCommerce Operations with a Single Integration to Connect Their ERP to Stord’s Omni-Channel Distribution Network

Stord

Then the IPG team was introduced to Stord, who set up a forward stocking location for IPG in Indianapolis. Each time the company needed to launch a new forward stocking location, they had to vet a new facility, sign a new contract, and ramp up their supply chain team on that warehouse’s software.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: DHL Supply Chain acquires Italian Group MIT Safetrans. DHL Supply Chain announced this week its acquisition of MIT Safetrans, an Italian logistics provider for highly specialized and high added-value niche markets.