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Baltimore Bridge Collapse- A Reminder of Supply Chain Risk

Supply Chain Matters

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River that leads to the Port of Baltimore. The collision caused this massive bridge spanning 1.6 All rights reserved.

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Procurement Technology: An Update from Spend Matters in Baltimore

NC State SCRC

Today I travelled to Baltimore to attend the ISM/Spend matters Global Procurement Tech Summit. I will be speaking on procurement analytics tomorrow, but got to attend a set of great sessions over the first half of the day. The first speaker was Anne Rung, Administrator from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies create a more efficient marketing and sales team, but they are not good listening posts for customer data. The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Supply chain systems are based on transactional data. Absolutely! Is there promise?

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Data model structures are the difference between success and failure. List All the Forms of Demand Data and Map Its Usage. What the articles that flood the market do not tell you about is: Slow Adoption. Details matter.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 30 – April 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

Rockville, Maryland-based OCR says it helps customers streamline and automate processes around denied party screening, license procurement / management, and product classification. According to data from Mexico’s Ministry of Economy, some of the most recent investments include: Mercado Libre, e-commerce: $2.4

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I have also learned that you need a large data pool to derive the type of analysis that I want to publish. What I See in the Data. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream.

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If You Are Not a Step Ahead, You Are Behind.

ivalua

A couple of weeks ago, ISM and Spend Matters had their first Eprocurement Technology Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on the Inner Harbor. Big data analytics- Being able to run more inquiries faster, gain better decision guidance, and having the ability to look at total cost vs. total value in real time.