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The Cutting Edge of Supply-Chain Sustainability

Dan Cassler, CTL, Assist. Chair, Infor. Logistics Tech. Dept., Univ. of Houston
February 24, 2012
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Dan Cassler, assistant chair of the Information Logistics Technology Department at the University of Houston, offers an update on supply-chain sustainability -- and details both the benefits and the pain to be derived from such efforts. [Run Time (Min.): 10:21]

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