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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). The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Absolutely!

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. I would build an expertise system in the Supply Chain Center of Excellence. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein.