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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

These teams are also more advanced in the use of planning and more advanced analytics concepts. Last week, I bought a shirt at Bloomingdales on Walnut Street in Philadelphia for 1$. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. Supply Chain Performance over the Period of March 2020 to July 2022.

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Be Careful What You Ask For

Supply Chain Shaman

The solutions optimize source, make and deliver within silos, but lack the ability to drive alignment and improve agility. The traditional supply chain process with a focus on orders and shipments as a source of demand (transactional efficiency) is like dancing on a back foot with your hands tied behind your back.

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information. We need to ask deeper questions on “what is possible” for supply chain analytics. The evolution sprung from chaos.

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I love photography, and mused as I walked into the shop on that rainy day in Philadelphia. ” I hate buzzwords and try to sidestep hype, but as I held my mug tight in my hand on a cold Philadelphia day, I thought more about the photo shop experience. Digital sourcing? I reflected. No one waits for a picture.

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Rethinking the How….

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, we know analytics is exciting. ” Steve’s burning platform is the use of analytics to drive growth through micromarketing and segmentation. There are five basic tenants of project management that do not fit well in the analytics environment. For analytics, this logic is flawed. It makes sense.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. Analytics (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing). Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Next year’s event will be in Philadelphia on September 4th-7th.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

The city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. I live in city-center Philadelphia. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. On the door of my favorite coffee shop is a closed sign. There is no traffic on the streets. The City of Brotherly Love is preparing to welcome the Pope. It was not adequate.