Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2023

The first use case is MIT professor Yossi Sheffi’s idea for using generative AI to monitor all possible sources of risk for a given supplier to mitigate any disruptions. While there is endless speculation, from my reading two supply chain-specific opportunities intrigued me.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Lowe’s also had distribution centers in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina with extra supplies ready and waiting. Home Depot devoted a whole distribution center in Florida to hurricane relief supplies such as tools, generators, tarps, flashlights, batteries and chainsaws, to support more efficient distribution across the southeast.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Networks and Sourcing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Giving planners access one source of truth prevented buffering with inventory, reduced both conflict and millions of dollars of inventory, and increased the accuracy of information shared with suppliers and customers. Paris-based Technicolor found that concurrent planning enabled their teams to plan together, instead of in isolation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2022

Experts from North Carolina State University and GEP conducted a survey on supply chain, procurement and IT leaders to determine their challenges and priorities, focusing on examining gaps in the supply chain. Alex Zhong is Director of Product Marketing at GEP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia sit squarely in the storm’s path. To prepare, stratify your suppliers into strategic, single source and high volume flows. Attempt to find alternate sources from geographical areas that are not projected in the path of Florence. Quite simply no one knows.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 11, 2017

Besides Texas—Toyota’s new North American headquarters—other states on the companies’ shortlist are Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, WSJ reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the potential investment.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Source: NWS. Light ice accumulation in parts of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Piedmont of northern North Carolina and southern Virginia could cause hazardous driving conditions. A powerful winter storm will begin hitting the Pacific Northwest on Friday, February 12th, and is expected to move across the southern U.S.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

How about partner relationships and product and service sourcing knowledge? .” Marino asks, “How do you deal with the loss of their personal contacts and customer vendor relationships built up over years? ” He adds, “When experts leave, don’t let their critical knowledge walk out the door!

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

North Carolina State Poole College of Management recently produced this 28 page report entitled “ 2019 Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Study ”. Source: 2019 Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Study. Source: 2019 Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Study. But it’s not easy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In addition, in many situations conscience needs to be applied, for questions like responsible sourcing or determining how best to allocate scarce supply, to name just two examples calling for ethics, still a uniquely human domain.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) in North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management is one of several partners in a five- year, $3.9 million grant-funded project to build and evaluate supply chains for local farmers and fishers to supply large-scale markets in North Carolina.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Warehouse Automation. Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. 4c81f2b2-cc31-43f9-9b83-b4d9691886a9. workspace://SpacesStore/3e762e45-eb15-4be0-bd12-56734eacb655. Printer-friendly version.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It will deliver tropical-storm-level winds by noon Thursday to North Carolina's coast, and hurricane-force winds and dangerous storm surges by late Thursday or early Friday. Over 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate in the Carolinas and Virginia. The storm has forced the closing of hundreds of schools.

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 31, 2021

While Kanban’s primary service is warehousing and distribution, this trailer acquisition demonstrates the growth of the company’s logistics transportation services in Eastern North Carolina. North Carolina logistics transportation services. To learn more about our North Carolina logistics capabilities, contact us today.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Metrics related to spend management, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management. Through a process developed by North Carolina State University professor Robert Handfield, a review is conducted of publicly available information, as well as interviews and surveys of corporate procurement specialists.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 28, 2023

Background On July 19, a devastating tornado with reported winds of upwards of 150 miles-per-hour devastated an area in eastern North Carolina. million square foot Pfizer life-saving drug production facility located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Pfizer drug manufacturing facility.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It will deliver tropical-storm-level winds by noon Thursday to North Carolina's coast, and hurricane-force winds and dangerous storm surges by late Thursday or early Friday. Over 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate in the Carolinas and Virginia. The storm has forced the closing of hundreds of schools.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2016

Step 2 – Develop Metrics and Data Sources. Which metrics are the right ones? Handfield outlines several steps companies should take to align their supply chain metrics with their corporate strategy: Step 1 – Translate Organizational Objectives Into Supply Chain Metrics. Step 3 – Develop a Balanced Scorecard.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 5, 2024

The storm track is expected to meander on a course headed for Georgia and the South Carolina and North Carolina coastal regions. Forecasters indicate that the storm will downgrade to a tropical storm and considerably slow its forward movement.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 8, 2015

This is more than just birds of a feather flocking together in a few places on the planet (Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, The Triangle in North Carolina, Austin, Seattle, Bangalore, Dublin and Sweden to name a few) and having an impact. Cartoon sourced from the Roanoke Times. (Weblink [link]. Mega cities are emerging.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor. The move was communicated as a means to boost market share and to gain access to domestic sources of manufacturing capability. Precor provided upwards of 625,000 square feet of manufacturing capability in Washington state and North Carolina.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 8, 2013

Although strategic sourcing capabilities are well established in industries ranging from automotive to electronics, they are still in the formative stages in the biotechnology sector. In the last several years, the company has undergone a huge shift in the way it operates its supply chain, particularly in the management of sourcing.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

According to the press release: Transplace leverages the CombineNet ASAP® advanced e-sourcing technology as part of its expert solutions, helping customers develop and optimize their carrier strategy for procurement events involving truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL), and intermodal needs.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Jodie grew up in Western North Carolina and graduated from Virginia Tech with a Master’ of Science in Crop & Soil Environmental Science. Jodie started out as a contractor at Philip Morris, a subsidiary of Altria, out of graduate school, working in the Leaf division of the company, which sources tobacco for Philip Morris.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The recent devastation wrought on Western North Carolina is devastating. The current shortage occurred when flooding flowed through western North Carolina and damaged a Baxter plant, which is now closed for cleaning. This can lead to advance business continuity sourcing plans to avoid these types of dilemmas.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I helped create the first North American chapter of BVL International in the Carolinas, and we hosted two meetings at Volvo in North Carolina and Thyssen-Krupp in South Carolina. anufacturing needs specifications from design for equipment calibration, sourcing needs the specifications for outsourced components).

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

This led to the development of Coca Cola Consolidated, located in Greensboro North Carolina, which later moved its headquarters to Charlotte, NC. Contract Management Procure to Pay Strategic Sourcing Supply chain analytics Supply Chain Innovation'

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The control tower constantly updates with information from local stores, news sources, Red Cross and local contacts. A North Carolina Chick-fil-A also opened on a Sunday, donating sandwiches and nuggets to evacuees. Denny’s contributed a mobile kitchen – serving pancake breakfasts in affected areas.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

Finally, the government in Germany is strongly pro-business, unlike our current administration which seems to view big business as not only the enemy, but the source of all that is wrong with the economy. If Germany is able to provide high quality, high technology products using local, more expensive suppliers, why can’t the US do so?

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Enterra Insights

JULY 26, 2018

Most of these devices can be connected to the Internet and can become an incredible source of information that would otherwise not available.” And truck platooning is being experimented with in North Carolina. ” Social media. ” Rio Tinto is using autonomous vehicles in its mining operations. Blockchain.

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Elementum

JANUARY 4, 2018

With freezing temperatures hitting as low as negative 18 degrees Fahrenheit and snowfall projected to reach up to 12 inches , Georgia , North Carolina , and Virginia have preemptively declared states of emergency. Temperatures are expected to continue dropping until the weekend.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2022

On our final night, we haven’t sourced the talent yet, but I promise you, we’re working on someone amazing. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I enjoy gardening and cooking and adore the natural beauty of our island home in North Carolina. Who did you have in 2021?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 20, 2015

We are in the last stages of planning for our upcoming 31st Semi-Annual Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) Meeting on Monday and Tuesday, April 27-28, 2015 at North Carolina State University. To address these concerns, organizations are devoting more attention and resources to create a supply chain risk management capability.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JULY 22, 2020

The company’s initiative means that it will work to transition its manufacturing suppliers to renewable sources of electricity to power their operations. Amazon now expects to need twice as many workers at a North Carolina fulfillment center than earlier anticipated. Nikkei Asian Review). Charlotte News & Observer).

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As an example, this weeks local and nationwide news headlines include reports of shipping delays being focused on various FedEx facilities across parts of Georgia , Michigan , North Carolina and Ohio.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The ranking “is based on an analysis of 37 data inputs provided by 12 third-party sources. In the innovation category, metrics related to spending management, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.

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