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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Absolutely! Absolutely!

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together.

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes. The optimization routines single thread through functions not enabling trade-offs across source, make, and deliver.