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The Backorder, April 10 2024

Unleashed

The Guardian reports that the Victoria Unboxed project will hope to eliminate invisible waste from supply chains by replacing cardboard produce boxes with reusable plastic crates. Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. That’s why AOV is an essential metric to improve.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

As a writer of research on demand-driven supply chains for over eight years, I find many amusing. The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. Supply chain leaders feel stuck. Why is this happening?

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck. Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. For me, this has been discovery.

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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. I believe that it is an analogy for what is happening in today’s supply chain market. In traditional supply chain planning implementations, I count at least a dozen engines churning to improve outcomes. The problem?