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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). We have built transactional buying relationships. It is a beautiful day in Baltimore. 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. I would build an expertise system in the Supply Chain Center of Excellence. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck. I believe that it matters.

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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.