Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2021

Logistics and Supply Chain – 1940 to 2040 with Jason Miller. Jason Miller and Joe Lynch discuss logistics and supply chain, 1940 – 2040. 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.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 8, 2015

In this guest commentary, John McKeller , senior lecturer for the Wisconsin School of Business Grainger Center for Supply Chain Managemen t at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains four key considerations for successfully integrating a firm’s strategy with supply chain management.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 11, 2013

A real time supply chain is able to react to market needs faster and more effectively than traditional supply chains. In this context, supply chain innovation is becoming more important as companies that have invested in traditional tools are now determined to operate real-time supply chains.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2021

The official Earth Day web site provides the following history of the Day’s origins: “ Senator Gaylord Nelson, a junior senator from Wisconsin, had long been concerned about the deteriorating environment in the United States. 3] More often than not, when companies look to do better, they look to their supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

Here I want to address the question, “Why is the focus on the basics of supply chain a barrier to adopting new forms of analytics and supply chain processes? Why have we not improved our use of channel data in supply chain processes?” The technique defined by Taiichi Ohno is to ask “Why?

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Experienced logistics and supply chain consultant, Chuck Intrieri is a new contributor to TheLogisticsofLogistics.com. Chuck has been a sought after speaker (Purchasing Management Association and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, trainer, and has been published in professional journals and general publications.

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Resilinc

APRIL 27, 2021

While the pandemic has given procurement managers fresh ammunition to advocate for greater resiliency within their corporate supply chains, geopolitical experts and a bipartisan coalition of legislators argue that the U.S. Critical minerals like lithium and nickel. said Marchese. What’s needed: Ally-shoring and Pan Americanism.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 28, 2016

He was one of my instructors at Northeastern as part of the supply chain certificate program I completed almost 15 years ago. The case studies we analyzed and discussed in his class opened my eyes and mind to the beauty of supply chain management, a field that was still relatively new to me at the time.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

Parents got notifications that school was cancelled, employees got notice to stay home, the world started buying most of their goods online, and the global supply chain did a collective * gulp. Receiving both her undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Lindsay is a loyal Wisconsinite.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 27, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We were surprised to find that many states with the highest Location Quotients were not states that are typically associated with the biofuels economy, including Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Maine, and others. So many stories of failure were due to the lack of this experience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Tariffs hit hard on the bottom line by hiking up costs across supply chains, thereby affecting sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution decisions. However, if organizations adopt proactive tariff optimization strategies and build adaptive supply chains, these challenges can be turned into opportunities. Here’s how.

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Exiger Perspectives

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Stable Mo-99 and Tc-99m supply chains depend on active nuclear research reactors, which are primarily used for applications in medicine, agriculture, forensics, and other fields. But, as noted, BR-2 is temporarily offline until December, placing further near-term strain on the Mo-99 supply chain. Market Impact: U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. The world is indeed dealing with significant challenges and changing forces, and supply chain sourcing has been the epicenter.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on added developments which now indicate that consumer electronics icon Apple is accelerating actions to source the company’s hardware component and assembly production to other countries. From our lens, this is an acknowledged need for broader supply chain agility and resilience.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2025

Industry Supply Chains and the Whipsaw Effect Since the initial threat of such levels of tariffs were first raised after the November Presidential election in 2024, internal and external discussions among various businesses and their industry supply chain teams were initiated relative to assessing the various cost, service and bottom line impacts.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Presidential election ramps up to its final week before election day, Supply Chain Matters highlights how strategic supply chain sourcing decisions can sometimes take on domestic or geopolitical connotations. In the 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Scott Walker was defeated as Governor by candidate Tony Evers.

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Resilinc

APRIL 5, 2022

More than two years after the global pandemic began its epic disruption of supply chains, political and corporate leaders around the world are calling for a major redesign of globalized supply chains to emphasize security and resilience over cost and efficiency. “A economy relies on. “We

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