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A Brief Commentary on the Future of Delivery

Talking Logistics

I’m heading back home today from the MercuryGate Velocity 2017 user conference in Las Vegas. Because Uber didn’t exist in 2007 (the company was founded in 2009) and the original iPhone, which revolutionized the smartphone and ushered in the app economy, was barely three months old. In my sleepy haze, I had no idea what to think.

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Supply Chains Can’t Handle the Heat

Elementum

These aren’t cities like Las Vegas or Phoenix, prepared-for and accustomed to three digit temperatures, but now they’re experiencing them nonetheless: London reached 104.5 The current 77 centimeter (30 inches) water level at the bottleneck, called Kaub, is the lowest seasonally since at least 2007.

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Balance and Segmentation – What the Election Can Teach Supply Chain

Kinaxis

I have to admit, it was cool to see the MUTO walk down the Las Vegas strip and knock down the casinos. Source: © 2007 AMR Research, Inc. | Page 5. Thinking about Bill’s comments on teaching pollsters, and combining with Godzilla restoring balance, it hit me. See Figure 1. Figure 1: Cost Based vs Value Based Planning.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #7

Supply Chain Trend

My first one was for the 2015 annual APICS conference in Las Vegas where a board member of SAPICS attending my presentation inquired if I would be interested in presenting at their conference in Sun City, South Africa. I don’t believe game developers could ever come up with some the types of things we see on a regular basis.

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