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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. In my work on the Supply Chain Index , I see that companies I recognize as doing network design well are rising faster on the list of the Supply Chain Index work. The network design technologies have changed a lot in the last decade. (I Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck.

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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. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. In 2017, when I moved, I bought an old car. Let me explain. Labor Shortages.