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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. In a similar vein, a major 3PL that I spoke to last week at Eye for Transport is considering discontinuing the traditional storage of spare parts and initiating a new service to do 3D printing of parts on demand. I would build an expertise system in the Supply Chain Center of Excellence.

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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). If I do an excellent job at safety stock management, my company will have the right levels of inventory. (Don’t