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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Demand in the demand-driven network is about much, much more than forecasting. Over the last decade, the only metric that we have improved is revenue/employee (see below). To do this companies need an end-to-end leader.

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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. Start by forecasting transportation requirements by lane, and focusing on taking the steps to be a good shipper. When The Wheels Fall Off Idiom: An unexpected problem arose, causing something to fail or go terribly wrong.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon has a long way to go, as the company says its operations emitted about 71 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, up by almost 40 percent since Jeff Bezos’s 2019 vow that his company would eventually stop contributing to the emissions warming the planet. Logistics companies tell CNBC that U.S.