Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

” Supply Chain Leader. I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. I loved the quote that I captured today in my interview (see above), and I have enjoyed interviews with supply chain leaders like Peter Gibbons. Which metrics do you think matter to supply chain excellence?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

This week I spent time in Silicon Valley talking to technology innovators. Disruption in supply chain planning is happening. We are on a path to reinvent decision-support technologies like supply chain planning. ” The barrier for new technology adoption is us. The third act is starting.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

What does this have to do with supply chain planning? As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. I purchased my first fitness tracker, set my goals, and the competition began. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Brick-and-mortar stores also allow shoppers to return unwanted purchases. Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Petco takes back dead fish,” Demer said.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Despite supply chain costs increasing and available capacity almost a rarity, retailers are undertaking a variety of ways to make sure they receive their inventory in time for the ever-important holiday season. “We have seen real lumpiness in the global supply chain that has led to some shortages and more so just unevenness.

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BlueYonder

MAY 10, 2019

I have the opportunity to hear their stories, understand how they’re using our solutions, and to get to know more about them, their families and career journeys. Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The biggest challenge for supply chain professionals today is the is the accelerated pace of change, according to APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi. Since 2006, Abe Eshkenazi has served as CEO of APICS, a trade association focused on offering research, education and certification programs in supply chain management.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice!

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For the second straight year between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, Tom Brady has announced his retirement from the NFL. Nearly three years ago to the day, I wrote that vertical farming was going help with supply chain efficiency. This time, however, he says it is for good. Maritime containership giant A.P.

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JDA software

MAY 10, 2019

I have the opportunity to hear their stories, understand how they’re using our solutions, and to get to know more about them, their families and career journeys. Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2018

First, let’s define TMS – this is the software used to manage purchased transportation. First, let’s define TMS – this is the software used to manage purchased transportation. The integration design must be done with supply chain IT and corporate IT so that all parties understand the level of effort required.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The transaction will enhance XPO’s range of supply chain solutions by making XPO the second largest less-than-truckload (LTL) provider in North America, and will expand the company’s global contract logistics platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

After more than two years, I finally traveled for a conference again. I was in San Diego for Kinaxis Kinexions , and it was a great trip (I will have a full recap of the conference next week). Kraft Heinz wants to solve its supply chain problems — in the metaverse. Unilever to pilot mobile ice cream shops.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

And with that, let’s move on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention: ELD mandate upheld in court, compliance date remains December 2017 (Commercial Carrier Journal). Logistics software space heats up as Routific and Virtace join forces. He made my [vote] next Tuesday very easy.”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 7, 2017

Today I attended the SAP Insider Conference. For the last fifteen years, I attended this conference. I yearn for the years when the SAP Insider conference was larger and full of energy. Today, fewer and fewer supply chain professionals make the event. I remember attendance for the supply chain event was 5,000.

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