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The Year Ahead with Doug Waggoner

The Logistics of Logistics

From April 2004 to December 2005, Waggoner served as Chief Executive Officer of USF Bestway, and from January 2002 to April 2004 he served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing for USF Corporation.

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Automation Hero April 2020: Shamil Patel from Allparts

EazyStock

Shamil Patel , Director at Allparts , has driven the change from using “paper and pen” to now using an automated tool for inventory optimization. Until I joined as a director of the company in 2002, the company books were exclusively paper and pen! What other types of automation tools do you use today? Name: Shamil Patel.

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Traceability in logistics

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Hello in this last post I want to talk about a tool and process that are very important when we are a producer of meet or want to export some aliments from a country to another. Manufacturers and consequently consumers benefit from the application of this tool. Usefulness of traceability. – Build trust in consumers.

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Fritz inducted into Logistics Hall of Fame

Logistics Business Magazine

The tool is available as a free global standard for humanitarian organisations and enables up-to-the minute tracking of food, non-food items, in-kind and cash donations, as well as financial information about goods in the supply chain. After selling his logistics company Fritz Companies Inc.

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Auto Supplier Relations Not All That Sunny

Material Handling and Logistics

Nissan was in last place, continuing its dramatic four-year slide to its all-time low in supplier relations since the study began in 2002. That’s significantly below FCA US in fifth place which also continued its downward slide to its lowest ranking in eight years. GM is slightly above average in all six, neither best nor worst.

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Finally – A breakthrough alternative to spreadsheets for managing your Supply Chain

AIMMS

When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market. What kind of tool set should you be looking for? . Over the years, as technology innovation has improved, staying current on supply chain planning optimization has not been a focus for SAP.

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Want to Succeed at a Large Firm? Become an Entrepreneur

Logistics Viewpoints

Tymon started at Jabil in 2002, after earning a degree in Industrial Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey. The company was using limited homegrown tools and Excel while they were “sitting on Kinaxis!”. The Kinaxis tools support concurrent planning. Manufacturing occurs at over 115 sites around the world. It was overlooked.”