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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Houston, We Have a Problem. To make the argument, let’s look at industry orbit charts in aggregate for the period of 2006-2017 for the apparel and chemical companies. The margins of the apparel industry have declined from 10% to 8% over the period of 2006-2017. Houston, we have a problem. However, buyer beware.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. Two books on McLean are published in 2006, marking the 50th anniversary of the first commercial intermodal container service. A patent was filed in 1962 for using shipping containers as touring exhibition booths. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Significance. 0 TEUs 0 meters long.

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Renegade Riposte

Supply Chain Shaman

The more that I work on supply chain metrics, the more that I believe that both the SCOR model and the Gartner Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics (which I worked on for the period of 2006-2010) reward functional, not end-to-end supply chain behavior. I see this as a problem. Lora Cecere is the Supply Chain Shaman.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. Two books on McLean are published in 2006, marking the 50th anniversary of the first commercial intermodal container service. A patent was filed in 1962 for using shipping containers as touring exhibition booths. . Significance. Significance.

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