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Monday, February 10, 2020 · Atmaja Sinha and Rakesh Thykandi
In a tight truck transportation market, a shipper can be forced to tender shipments to the spot market when contracted carriers are unable to fulfill its demands. As a result, the shipper is likely to incur higher costs and lower levels of service.
Students in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State will learn how wireless sensors and cloud computing can impact the manufacturing field, thanks to a recent gift from KCF Technologies.
Management and leadership are the fulcrums for leveraging labor, and they are weak and under-developed in many supply chains. Management is discovering that the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to technology redefining labor. The reasons are simple.
A major challenge for supply chain practitioners in many consumer-packaged goods companies is how to manage inventory for an ever-growing portfolio of stock-keeping units (SKUs). Add a mandatory third tier to the distribution network, and the challenge becomes even more…
The University of Washington's top-ranked Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics degree program has announced that it will award several scholarships to students (up to $20,000) beginning in Autumn Quarter 2020.
We are on the cusp of major challenges in labor, and supply chain managers should prepare. The economy has created a record number of jobs and unemployment is at nearly the lowest it can be, yet too many workers aren't benefiting.
As demand for experienced, educated supply chain professionals grows, many of this year's salary survey respondents are enjoying six-figure salaries, but also dealing with the new demands of running global supply chains.
Digital transformation is changing supply chains on many fronts, including the functional makeup of teams. Unfamiliar job titles such as Data Scientist are now part of the supply chain ecosystem, as the discipline comes to rely more and more on its ability to collect, analyze,…
Researchers at MIT's Energy Initiative and Plasma Fusion and Science Center have developed a plug-in hybrid engine system that transitions big long haul rigs to electric power.
Monday, August 12, 2019 · Josué C. Velázquez-Martínez, Karla M. Gámez-Pérez, and Ken Cottrill
The recent announcement by UPS that it will start delivering packages on Sundays next year is another sign of the inexorable growth of e-commerce – and the number of delivery trucks on the roads. More vehicles equal more fuel consumed and more CO2 emitted, increasing the…
The UN estimates that by 2050, 68% of the world's population will live in urban areas. That is an additional 2.5 billion people. This increases the size, scope, and complexity of our response and recovery efforts.
Humanitarian response allows employees and potential employees to see logistics activities, equipment, and services in a different light, says ALAN's executive director.
When the 7th Annual Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit convenes next month at the USC Marshall School of Business, Blockchain will be addressed under the auspices of the conference theme: “Evolution-Revolution-Disruption.”
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