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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). For example, would Toyota have thought to ask the question, “Are my brakes failing?” Absolutely!

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. For example, Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) has very little to do with Transportation Planning (TMS). There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes.