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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I sometimes wonder if I should create a new class of technologies for the network design tools because they have changed so much.) These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. The greatest gap is in the design of supplier and manufacturing networks.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining Tools offer promise, but the typical social listening tools used in digital marketing like Coremetrics and Radian6 are grossly inadequate. These tools only answer the questions that we know to ask. The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. As a result, articles are written proclaiming demand-driven results and then the reader is given a solution that is anything but demand driven.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In other news… Descartes Launches Updated Advanced Home Delivery Solution. HighJump Software, TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Group Announces Strategic Partnership with Unisun Software. BMW to Mazda Imports Slowed as Strike Shuts Baltimore Port ( Bloomberg ). Here are some excerpts from the press release: 16.3

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Editor’s Selection Award: Baltimore’s Flowers & Fancies Continues to assist Individuals and Couples Mark Special Occasions

Veridian Solutions

The brief variation: For nearly 50 years, Baltimore’s plants & Fancies has been assisting couples celebrate special minutes. Now more than ever before, floral arrangements are a whimsical solution to brighten another person’s day.

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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. Transportation and manufacturing reliability compounds supplier issues.

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The Backorder, April 10 2024

Unleashed

US manufacturing activity expands for first time since 2022. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3% Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. When shoppers to spend more on each purchase it has a desirable effect on your profits. in March – up 2.5%