Adrian Gonzalez
Adrian Gonzalez
Adrian Savin Gonzalez, also known by his nicknames A-Gon and Gonzo, is a Mexican-American professional baseball first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 May 1982
CitySan Diego, CA
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Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.
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Many companies, however, do not have a clear and accurate understanding of their transportation costs, ... They're often bundled together with other costs and reported at an aggregated level, thus preventing companies from allocating transportation costs to specific products, customers, or business units.
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Companies often implement collaborative planning and forecasting with upstream vendors and manufacturing partners, but they rarely translate these demand and production forecasts into transportation capacity requirements and share them with carriers. But some shippers are now providing forward visibility to carriers and securing capacity in advance. These shippers are receiving priority in capacity allocation over shippers that do not if only because carriers appreciate the effort these shippers are making to keep them informed.
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Chief financial officers are becoming better educated about the role and impact of logistics on financial performance, driven in part by the need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA). Many companies, however, do not have a clear and accurate understanding of their transportation costs. They're often bundled together with other costs and reported at an aggregated level, thus preventing companies from allocating transportation costs to specific products, customers, or business units.
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Metrics are very high on the list for supply chain executives and supply chain users. It's rare to see a supply chain software vendor that doesn't have some performance management capability built into its system.
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Order-to-delivery cycles are shrinking. That means the daily challenge for end-users isn't to get the perfect plan, but to get as much lights-out execution as possible. We call that streaming or dynamic optimization.
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Spring Training is about playing, and we will be playing, so I don't think it will affect us that way. Maybe it could have an effect on managers and general managers, because all the players won't be together in the clubhouse and they might not have enough time to see everybody.
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My mentality was never to do anything out of the ordinary. I was just going to play my game, and hopefully it was good enough to be on the 25-man roster. I never pressed, I never tried to do more than I had to just so I could make the team.
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We think the stock is undervalued at current levels but there is no other reason for the sudden jump in the stock price.
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Once I get comfortable and feel a part of what I'm doing, I've always hit.
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That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.
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I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.
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I faced Jake a couple of times in Spring Training. It didn't go very well. He's a great pitcher. I'm glad I'm on his side now.
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But it's the infield to me. I play first as though I were a third baseman or a shortstop. I pride myself on my defense. I pay a lot of attention to it.