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Oil & Gas Companies Focus on Eliminating Supply Chain Waste

Adrian Gonzalez June 17, 2015

“Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” For the past few years I’ve been using that phrase, which you typically find in investment literature,

Impact of Food Safety Modernization Act on Transportation

Adrian Gonzalez June 15, 2015

There were plenty of informative sessions at last month’s Transplace Shipper Symposium 2015 conference, including the panel discussion I led on drones, 3D printing, and

This Week in Logistics News (June 8-12, 2015)

Adrian Gonzalez June 12, 2015

I was at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference earlier this week. Great learning and networking at the event (stay tuned for my takeaways in

Time to Survive and Nexus Supplier Index: New Measures of Supply Chain Risk Management

Adrian Gonzalez June 10, 2015

Over the past two years, I’ve written extensively about the growing importance of supply chain risk management and supply chain mapping. See for example: Rethinking

Finding Happiness

Adrian Gonzalez June 8, 2015

It was my oldest son’s bar mitzvah this past Saturday, and as is customary at our congregation, he prepared a d’var Torah — a brief

This Week in Logistics News (June 1-5, 2015)

Adrian Gonzalez June 5, 2015

I’m on limited time this morning, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: enVista Launches

Amazon Tests Robots for Warehouse Item Picking

Adrian Gonzalez June 3, 2015

At last week’s ICRA 2015 conference, an international forum for robotics researchers, Amazon hosted the “Amazon Picking Challenge,” where robots from 27 entrants from around