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CSCMP is holding a video contest to select a moderator for the EDGE 2019 keynote panel “The Gig Economy and the Millennial’s Journey to Change the World” held on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Anaheim, California.

 

The panel, featuring successful entrepreneurs Seema Bansal, Chieh Huang and Eric Termuende, will explore the evolving working landscape, how young entrepreneurs are influencing supply chain management and the ways millennials plan to affect positive world change.

 

To enter the contest, submit a 90-second video providing a compelling elevator pitch on why you would be the perfect moderator for this panel. Send in your videos by June 23, 2019, for a chance to win!

 

The winner will moderate the panel, receive one complimentary registration to EDGE 2019, hotel lodging, a $600 travel stipend and be featured in CSCMP’s magazine and newsletters.

 

To qualify, you must be a member of CSCMP at the time of submission.

CSCMP Corporate Memberships allow companies to provide access, insight and perspective to their entire team. Corporate members receive all the benefits of a Professional Membership, plus special pricing and exclusive services tailored to meet your specific needs and create value for your organization.

EDGE’s unbiased, curated content is one of the many reasons to attend supply chain's premier event^TM!  EDGE 2019 hosts 22 tracks and 100+ educational session topics. Each session topic is thoughtfully constructed to not only address trends and hot topics, but to provide lasting, applicable solutions and answers.

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Continue reading and learn about hot sessions like:

 -  A Look Down the Road—Carrier CEOs Speak, Transportation & Logistics Track

 -  Weaving a Seamless Supply Chain with Communication, Cross-Training and Goal Alignment, C-Level Discussion Forum Track

Now that the dust has settled, and shippers have had time to regroup, it’s time to take a step back and see how shippers are moving forward using the lessons learned from this past year.
 
Register now to join NASSTRAC, CSCMP and TranzAct Technologies on Thursday, June 20 at 3:30 p.m. CDT for a live presentation of the Perfect Storm Webinar series, Part 6 “Getting Better as a Result of the Storm”.
 
CSCMP Corporate Member, Redwood Logistics, will be hosting the event in downtown Chicago, IL.

 

After the presentation, NASSTRAC will be hosting a “Sip and Ship” networking reception, where you will be able to meet and speak directly to the panelists and network with industry peers. 
 
Panelists:
 -  John Coyle III, Senior Director, Customer Supply Chain & Logistics, Morton Salt, Inc.
 -  Tim McKinstry, Area Vice President, Midwest division, YRC
 -  Eric Weidl, Co-Founder, Dock411
 -  Jim Vrtis, Chief Innovation Officer, Truckstop
 
Moderator: 

Mike Regan, Co-Founder and Chief Relationship Officer, TranzAct Technologies, Inc.

 

Less than 10% of today’s supply chain data is effectively used, and most companies are virtually blind to the 80% of data that is dark or unstructured. These limitations make it difficult to optimize supply chain operations – and the business is exposed to unnecessary disruptions, delays and risks, as well as increased costs.

 

Thank you to CSCMP member Aaron Terrazas, Director of Economic Research at Convoy.com for contributing this article.
 
This June, the United States economy marks the 120th consecutive month of economic growth. The economic expansion that began in June 2009 is now the longest period of sustained growth in American history.
 
It is a nervous anniversary. With each passing month, the voices of doubt become louder – questioning how long the good times can continue. Recent economic data has added fuel to that fire. Traditional warning signs of a turning point in the economy, such as the yield curve, have been flashing for some time.
 
But the most important data points – unemployment, growth and inflation – remain solid, if undeniably softer than a year ago.
 
Amid the noise of incoming data and the 24-hour news cycle, three uncomfortable truths merit keeping in mind over the weeks and months ahead.
 
First, there is nothing mechanical about the lifespan of the business cycle. While the longest expansion in U.S. history is now at a decade and counting, other countries have experienced much longer periods of sustained growth: Australia has not had a recession in almost 30 years. Within the United States, there is a wide diversity of local economic experiences: A handful of oil-producing states experienced a short-lived recession in 2014-15 while the rest of the country was still growing.  
 
Second, economists are notoriously bad at predicting the precise timing of recessions too far in advance (as many CEOs love to remind us). But, there is usually a reasonably accurate sense of where imbalances have built up in the economy and which sectors are exposed to risks from a sudden shock. For at least two years now, polls of economists have regularly pointed to trade risks as a potential spark for the next recession when it does eventually arrive.
 
Third, while we like to think of the economy as alternating between opposing states of expansion and contraction, reality is more complicated. Unlike economists’ charts, there are no bright lines in time or shaded bars in the soil dividing booms from busts. Instead, economic activity ebbs and flows. There are periods of slowing – if not outright contacting – economic activity short of recessions, as any trucker will attest to over the past few months.
 
Policy uncertainty clouds the economic horizon, and can harm business’ ability to make long-term investments. No recession is identical and, despite the universal desire to see patterns across time, recessions have become too infrequent and too idiosyncratic to claim repeated, causal relationships behind them.
 
It’s not a foregone conclusion that the U.S. economy is overdue for a recession. With better access to timely data, our economic policymakers and business leaders should be better able to respond in real time to subtle shifts in economic conditions, making it particularly hazardous to make definitive long-term calls. The longest expansion in United States history cannot go on forever, but it’s not over just quite yet either.  
 
Follow Convoy Freight Research for more perspective on the transportation industry. 

 

Supply chains and secure technology are critical to global business operations, and they are also a high-value target for cybercriminals. The cybersecurity of a supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a security breach in any part of the supply chain will likely harm the rest of the supply chain. Three of the most highly publicized cyber-attacks and data breaches – Home Depot, Target, and U.S. Office of Personnel Managemet – have been penetrated by infiltrating a supplier’s network and using it as a gateway to the target’s systems. These high-profile cases underline the importance of applying a holistic review of your supply chain. Managing supply chain risk starts with creating a framework for how your supply chain operates, and ideally, through a top-down strategy.

 

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