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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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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I just have to get used to it. The outfield grass is different than the infield grass. I learned that. I did well for my first time. I had fun out there.
baseball game knew learned level played players
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.
heart seed seeing win
I had to put a lot of heart into it. Seeing (Kelly) also being a 'six' seed go in there and win made me think I could go in there and win. It made me give my all.
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If there's to be a call-to-action by Congress, from a technology standpoint, it should be focused on making sure detection technology being used overseas is up to the task. This would make global trade much more secure than blocking a business transaction here in the U.S.
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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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Generally speaking, logistics services is a low-margin business and driving profitable growth is becoming increasingly difficult.
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I'm not scared of it. I'm good in science. I think I'm going to do OK in it.
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The game is so quick that you can't blame things. We didn't score a run in the ninth. It's not a big deal.
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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.