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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. User satisfaction with planning systems is low. Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. They are step change requiring either the redeployment of existing technologies or the purchase of new platforms. Why is this happening?

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. Which would lead them to implement text mining/sentiment analysis as a core project for 2013 into their business intelligence systems. Absolutely!

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Questions Companies with U.S.-Mexico Trade Should be Asking

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Specifically discussing how the internet of things will impact supply chains, he said: The internet of things provides companies the ability to source parts and inputs, and sell, globally. When the Automated Commercial Environment system goes down in San Diego for two hours during produce season, or when the U.S. Kass described. .

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I believed that the first generation of supply chain systems would improve operations to a greater degree than actually happened. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear.

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

TMC

The IoT gives companies the ability to source parts and sell products globally. And it enables consumers to buy directly from overseas retailers and manufacturers, helping to drive the rapid growth in ecommerce worldwide. Interruptions to this flow of commerce are increasingly costly. For example, in the U.S.,

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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. There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes. The optimization routines single thread through functions not enabling trade-offs across source, make, and deliver.