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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Achieving compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, a law aimed at improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate financial statements, is dependent on having access to timely, accurate, and complete information and establishing process controls -- the same success factors required to create more secure and efficient global trade operations.
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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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The consolidation trend will certainly continue in 2006, and it won't always be the 'usual suspects' involved in the deals. We expect to see logistics service providers and financial institutions make some TMS-related acquisitions this year as they attempt to 'roll up' providers of complementary solutions in order to accelerate scale and growth.
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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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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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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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Everybody has to be on the top of our game to get to San Diego. Your baseball's got to be flawless.
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It was a tough loss. We had a couple of chances that ended with well-hit balls right at somebody.
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I played in Double-A and it was the same level of baseball. There were players who were 30 and 35 years old. They knew the game and I learned a lot.
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All our pitchers are aggressive with the fastball. But they're not afraid to throw 10 curveballs in a row.
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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.
bought family season
Friends and family have already bought 40 season tickets, and there's probably a lot more that I haven't of that are going to be there, so it'll be fun.
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It's a good feeling to have. I know they're not going to pitch around me. I'll get some pitches to hit. I'm just looking to hit spikes (line drives).
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Customers who take the Descartes Challenge pay only for the implementation, then pay for the solution itself later, once its value has been proven.