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Procurement Technology: An Update from Spend Matters in Baltimore

NC State SCRC

Today I travelled to Baltimore to attend the ISM/Spend matters Global Procurement Tech Summit. The approach is to begin to think about how to apply category management to leverage spend across agencies. 22,000 sourcing events. $50 The first speaker was Anne Rung, Administrator from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Evaluate how to reduce latency by using downstream data to sense demand and implementing demand translation technologies to make the downstream data usable. The acronyms keep coming….

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Transportation Strategy in a Constrained Infrastructure: 30th SCRC Meeting Kicks Off Today

Supply Chain View from the Field

The expansion of Panama has shifted shipments from West Coast to East Coast, but only Norfolk and Baltimore can handle these larger ships – and this will result in longer berths where will the funding be coming from for these port expansions – and it is something that is happening, but we aren’t sure how to handle it.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

They understand how to shape demand to maximize profit. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. Let me know how I did answering your question. It is a beautiful day in Baltimore. They price and position based on marketing swings. Have a great week!

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Will the IoT Revolution Force Government to Embrace Silo-Busting?

TMC

Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security, on how the IoT impacts supply chains, logistics, and the movement of goods. The IoT gives companies the ability to source parts and sell products globally. Consider, for example, the risks posed by customs-related delays.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

But Amazon is on track to purchase by next year as much electricity produced by solar, wind and other carbon-free sources as it uses to power its operations. Baltimore is not included in Global Port Tracker’s national totals because its data is reported later than other ports. including electric vehicles, batteries and solar products.