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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. This was the lie spun by Gartner in 2002. The streets below me today are icy and wet. It is a dark and dismal day. However, not for long. New Year’s Eve is a time for parties.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market. As I look below, I see field after field of United States farmland. Let’s face facts.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market. As I look below, I see field after field of United States farmland. Let’s face facts.

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American Software Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

Customers recognized were Mandy McCain of Berry Global, Katherine Storer of Berlin Packaging, Stephanie Francis of ChemPoint, Michelle Wielemaker of Capral Australia and Mariam Belghith of Laboratories Philadelphia in Sfax, Tunisia (laboratories SIMED). Company and Technology. These factors include, but are not limited to, continuing U.S.

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What Steph Curry and LeBron James Can Teach Us About Innovation

GlobalTranz

The 2002 Oakland A’s, who set baseball’s record for longest winning streak with the sixth-lowest paid team in the major leagues, used new statistics to disrupt baseball and set the stage for data-driven revolutions in many sports. Curry and the Warriors should remind us that unless more U.S.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Deutsche Post started acquiring shares of the company in 1998 and completed its acquisition of DHL by 2002, expanding the brand ‘DHL’ to its other services. It started in 1969 as DHL Air Cargo, and by the late 1970s, the company had expanded its operations and offered services throughout the world.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2020 (Who knew I’d still be writing this blog 18 years later!)

NC State SCRC

The first one, I believe, was in January, 2002, just two years after I founded the SCRC. Already, cities like Washington and Philadelphia are providing delivery only zones, but this may not be enough. However, I also came to realize that I’ve been writing this blog now for more than a decade!