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Supply Chain Leaders Rearranging Deck Chairs? Yes, I Think So.

Supply Chain Shaman

You don’t bring about change in real big meetings or virtual meetings. Comparing 2010-2019. Aggregate Results for Apparel Manufacturers for the Period of 2010-2019. Aggregate industry sector results were better in 2000, and 2010 than in 2019. I am trying to do it, one person, at a time.

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Trying to Push Content Above the Noise

Supply Chain Shaman

The month of December was my longest writing respite since I started this blog in January 2010. The blue in Table 4 highlights underperformance, while the yellow highlights mark the companies meeting the criteria for both analyses. Today is a writing day. My last post was December 7th, 2023.

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BR Williams Celebrates National Logistics Day

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Since its inception on May 26th, 2010, BR Williams Logistics, LLC has rapidly evolved into a reliable force in the industry. The safety records of contract carriers are updated via API nightly, ensuring that only carriers meeting stringent safety thresholds are dispatched on loads.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. As a research leader at AMR Research when I voiced the concern for a more rigorous peer group analysis in prior meetings, I hoped for a better outcome. The answer is no.

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Good-bye. I Will Go Forward by Going Forward.

Supply Chain Shaman

I worked with Roddy when I was at AMR Research from 2006 to 2010. Many discussions were at a pub at a conference or a casual meeting catching up at the airport between flights, but they always included a discussion on the importance of outside-in processes. He was my boss for two years, but I liked him better as a friend.

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Making Supply Meet Demand at America’s Food Banks

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

So, how should Feeding America allocate its food supply to the food banks so that the supply can meet demand in a fair and timely manner? By 2010, over 200 million pounds of items were auctioned off. Ultimately, the Choice System creates mutual benefits by making supply meet demand along the supply chain! pickles). .

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Gartner research shows that companies that continued to increase earnings while others declined in 2009 and 2010 were those that were able to keep their foot on the gas through the downturn because they had planned responses in advance. The real world rarely follows the rules–the Coronavirus is more evidence of this reality.