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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore being struck by the Dali and collapsing is an unpredictable disruption to the supply chains of several industries including automobiles, coal, and agricultural machinery. The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products.

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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. 22,000 sourcing events. $50 Dan discussed the major transformation going on at IBM, that is focused on three big changes: Data is becoming the world’s new natural resource, transforming industries and professions.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 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. The acronyms keep coming…. The cadence does not stop.

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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. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. Supply chain systems are based on transactional data. Have a great week!

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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. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. Here I share a cut of the data. Where Would I Start?

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Will the IoT Revolution Force Government to Embrace Silo-Busting?

TMC

While my fellow panel members focused on recommendations around issues of data privacy and internet infrastructure related to IoT, my testimony focused on how the technology impacts global supply chains. The IoT gives companies the ability to source parts and sell products globally. On behalf of C.H. For example, in the U.S.,