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WERC
The Northern California WERCouncil met recently with members and nonmembers while touring the Port of Stockton. After the Port tour, Rick Anderson lead a discussion on the Hanjin Bankruptcy and the effects it is having globally in the supply chain. Ron Brown, a WERCouncil member from the Port of Oakland sent an update on the Hanjin Vessels. The outcome was a lively discussion of Hanjin and the strategies companies can use to offset the delays in their shipments.
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By Ken Ackerman
 At the end of World War I, a venerable chemical company purchased about one quarter of a rising Michigan manufacturing business called General Motors. In the early 1920s, DuPont developed a new approach to financial analysis and began to apply this DuPont model to measure the financial performance of General Motors and other businesses under its control. The principles of the DuPont model remain as valid today as they were when they were developed nearly 100 years ago.
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SupplyChain24/7
Various facets of the third-party logistics continue to show the evolving role the sector has in serving and helping shippers meet their goals and expectations, with 3PLs also seeing solid bottom line success, according to the Annual Surveys of Third-Party Logistics CEOs, released at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. 2016 marks the 23rd year of the survey, which was again conducted by Dr. Robert Lieb, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.
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DC Velocity
Distribution center managers have long had a conflicted relationship with radio-frequency identification technology. Like a hotshot high school player drafted by the big leagues only to fade into relative obscurity, the technology has never quite lived up to its glittering promise.
RFID burst onto the scene in 2003, swaggering into the stadium when Wal-Mart named the technology its starting pitcher in a bold effort to track items throughout its distribution network.
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Lansdale Warehouse is a family-owned-and-operated logistics provider located in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Since its founding in 1958, Lansdale Warehouse has furnished comprehensive logistics services in a public and contract environment for both national and international customers who require access to the United States markets. Our "Customer Driven Logistics"™ principle means your needs as a customer are our primary focus.
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Inc.com
Millennials bring fresh perspectives to the workplace. And more than any earlier generation, they have a clear sense of what they will (and won’t )tolerate. If you want your best employees to stick around, avoid these phrases.
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Catherine Iste
Receiving an employee complaint and embarking on an investigation can be a tough but necessary decision. Once the journey down that road has begun, it is important to make sure you conduct a thorough, timely and objective investigation.
Doing so requires a good balance between paying attention to the details and keeping an eye on the big picture. Here are three ways to be sure you keep your investigation fair and on track.
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Logistics Management
Logistics managers may assume that leading industrial nations would be driving the growth for controlled atmosphere warehousing, but recent research suggests that this is not the “cold case” it appears to be. According to the “2016 Global Cold Chain Alliance Capacity Report,” total global capacity was 600 million cubic meters in 2016 — an increase of 8.6 percent since 2014, the last time the survey was conducted.
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Supply Chain Digest
The challenge logistics companies face when adopting new marketing channels, especially those that require quick response capabilities is supporting vastly different customer order profiles and shipping schedules within the same order fulfillment facility.
The typical batch-order picking and sorting model for example, works most efficiently and productively when the average customer order includes medium to large quantities of mixed SKUs.
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Spend Matters Network
Tax planning is a big part of where profits are booked, where procurement organizations are established and how supply chain management is done. Transfer pricing continues to be a significant source of controversy between the world’s tax authorities and multinational corporations. And of course the tax inversion deals that have gone on in the USA highlight the issue of how big corporations can transfer profits to lower tax jurisdictions.
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