Enterra Insights

JUNE 1, 2023

A year into the crisis, Sriram Narayanan , the Kesseler Family Endowed Faculty Fellow of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University, explained, “Supply chain management plays a central role in the quality of life we enjoy every day, whether it be products we shop in a retail store or meals that our kids are served in school.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. Shipping Gazette Daily News. Shipping Gazette Daily News. This was the result.

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RFgen

MARCH 10, 2025

Jason Miller, the Eli Broad Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University, explains that effectively managing inventory requires an understanding of the dynamic relationship between demand and supply.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 19, 2025

Grown from the concept of the e-commerce supply chain – end-to-end process from product sourcing through delivery, it has become the determining factor in a business advantage. Source: [link] Well, it faces a few challenges: Management. Jared Weitz, Founder & CEO of United Capital Source Inc. Several funding sources.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Supply Chain Analytics Maturity Model (Source: Hackett Group). This laborious process has been scaled in-house, then out-sourced, and partnered with rigid, error-prone ETL automation. Compain co-founded ClearMetal after working in Hong Kong at one of the world’s largest container-shipping companies.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Michael Baudendistel ( @FWavesRail ), an analyst and Market Expert at FreightWaves, reports, “There were some interesting, if perhaps intuitive, highlights from the latest University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. ” This is especially true when it comes to efforts aimed at addressing climate change and human trafficking.

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RFgen

JANUARY 21, 2025

In a recent webinar , Jason Miller, Eli Broad Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University, highlighted this complexity: “Monthly and quarterly inventory reports…group all categories togetherInventories are up. Inventories are down. What should we do?

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Outbound volumes from Houston also fell 73%, but the rearrangement of supply chains, the difficulty of shipping in the flooded region, and increased seasonal demand in other parts of the country combined to create pockets of tight capacity that put extra pressure on truckload rates. Denver to Houston reefer rates also rose 63¢ to $2.53

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods. Coronavirus could wreck the global auto industry.” .

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. Tsukumo Shokai Shipping company was founded transporting passengers from Yokohama to Shanghai.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

“Some companies are starting to invest in creating data-backed profiles of their supplier base so they know where and when to look for second sources. These tools can also rapidly model alternate supply and transportation scenarios, such as rerouting around a port strike or going to an alternate source of supply.”

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Zipline Logistics

JULY 28, 2020

Menards services 12 distribution centers throughout its territory with facilities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Missouri, and South Dakota. When working with Menards, it is essential to assess your network and capabilities to ensure that your orders can ship for reasonable costs.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As a young assistant professor at Michigan State University in 1992, I was part of a group called the Global Procurement Benchmarking Initiative. Sure, they could buy things more efficiently, and ship things more efficiently, but were they really linked? Leveraging and strategic sourcing has gotten in the way of that.

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Elementum

JUNE 22, 2022

In 1950, Eiji Toyoda, the nephew of Toyota founder, Sakichi Toyoda, participated in a three-month visit of Ford in their Dearborn, Michigan plant. Pulling the lens back to explicitly include the forces of change and everyday business dynamics, we can immediately see some fairly obvious problem-sources. Dual sourcing?

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Peak produce shipping season refers to the time period when the largest volume of fruits and vegetables are harvested and subsequently shipped to markets across the US, impacting truck capacity. California.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 24, 2019

Even recycled goods may be collected, shipped to China, stripped down, cleaned up, relabeled, and sold into the market as original product. (A Professor Wilson of Michigan State University notes that the explosion of counterfeiting is occurring for several reasons. Why is counterfeiting becoming such a massive problem?

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BlueYonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Blue Yonder and Microsoft co-hosted the annual Blue Yonder Automotive Connect event in Detroit, Michigan, bringing together 67 supply chain practitioners from 15 companies in the Automotive OEM, Tier 1, and Aftermarket sectors.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Changing the way people buy apparel Matthew Wallace has worked in a number of apparel management roles over his career, including as a Senior Director of Sourcing for Merchandising at Walmart, a senior VP at apparel manufacturer PVH (which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein), and currently the CEO of Project DXM (Digital Xpress Model).

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

Billion Michigan based Lineage Logistics LLC , which describes itself as “ the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT ,” reportedly raised $4.4 This provider’s software suite supports global transportation sourcing, shipment and order visibility, multimodal optimization, product, customs and trade compliance.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I was a young buck assistant professor at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at the time, working with Bob Monczka… Steve spoke several times at the Executive Program held at MSU, and did a great job as I recall…). They would bid and source only part at a time!

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This necessitated expanding its manufacturing, particularly at its Kalamazoo, Michigan site, where COVID-19 vaccines and treatments were made. Two of these innovations include the first large-scale lipid nanoparticle (LNP) manufacturing system and advanced shipping containers for ultra-cold vaccines.

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FLEXE

MARCH 29, 2017

Because of this, a simple activity like mapping and visualizing supply chain flows can often spark critical questions such as, “Why are materials sourced from Region A, produced in Region B, then air-shipped as a finished product back to Region A?”

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FLEXE

MARCH 28, 2017

Because of this, a simple activity like mapping and visualizing supply chain flows can often spark critical questions such as, “Why are materials sourced from Region A, produced in Region B, then air-shipped as finished product back to Region A?” 2: University of Michigan 2015 Supply Chain Design COE Research.

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EMERGE App

JANUARY 15, 2024

He gazed longingly over Lake Michigan. His buddies in the bar spoke about “drop shipping” which he had mistaken for the action that delivery people do when they drop the package on your front porch. Plus, they were lightweight and easy to ship around the States. E-commerce was the way to go for him.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

Traverse City, Michigan based provider Starboard provides an innovative and interactive digital twin of a physical supply chain network leveraging gaming technology to allow users to explore what-if supply chain and business scenarios. Supply chain planning technology provider Logility, Inc., million daily shipments.

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EMERGE App

AUGUST 5, 2018

He gazed longingly over Lake Michigan. His buddies in the bar spoke about “drop shipping” which he had mistaken for the action that delivery people do when they drop the package on your front porch. Plus, they were lightweight and easy to ship around the States. Drop Shipping. Another Supply Chain Revelation.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. For example, if we’re manufacturing something in China there are labour costs, the costs to ship, plus tariffs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2024

The source of the contamination was Abbott Nutrition. Abbot’s baby formula factory in Sturgis, Michigan, is bigger than 12 football fields. They met with him, they dismissed his concerns, and this plant just kept on shipping out questionable product,” Schlosser averred. There were water leaks.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

Data also shows that half of US states are experiencing out-of-stock rates between 40% and 50%: Image source: Flipboard. The situation became dire in February of 2022 when Abbott Nutrition, one of the country’s three main powdered formula manufacturers, voluntarily recalled several formula brands and shut down its Sturgis, Michigan factory.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Uniform sourcing rules for all taxable transactions. Simplified tax remittances and returns. State administration of sales and use tax collections (no self-collecting local jurisdictions). Uniform state and local tax bases. Uniform tax base definitions and rules. Participating states.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In most food-supply chains it might take weeks to figure out where it went from source to destination, and in some cases, the source may not be known, but on a blockchain, it takes just seconds. Michigan State University estimated fraud costs the global food industry as much as $40 billion a year. Nestle SA, Tyson Foods Inc.,

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 16, 2022

Federal Drug Administration ( FDA ) subsequently launched an investigation and onsite inspection of the company’s Sturgis, Michigan production facility, the only facility producing baby formula by Abbott in the U.S. Two infants tragically died. Abbott reportedly has a 40 percent U.S. market share in baby formula. “ U.S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 26, 2024

Jason is a professor of supply chain at Michigan State University, which is ranked as one of the top supply chain schools in the world. Summary: Market Insights In this podcast, Jason Miller, a professor at Michigan State University, shares his expertise on the current state of the supply chain and logistics industry. and Dortha J.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 7, 2025

The portal provides real-time container tracking, automated invoicing, seamless electronic payments, and integrated dispute resolution, ensuring compliance with the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 and recent Federal Maritime Commission regulations. This phased rollout across major U.S.

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Resilinc

APRIL 27, 2021

“We’ve learned too well [from the pandemic] that the security and resiliency of supply chains has a direct relationship to our national security,” said Mike Gallagher, a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin and co-leader, with Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin, of the House Armed Services Committee’s Defense Supply Chains Task Force.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When the Trump Administration tariffs were launched against Chinese imports, China quickly created an additional tier in the supply chain by shipping through middlemen in other countries. This strategy created a buffer against the tariffs, passed through costs, and made money both for China and the middlemen.

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