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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

And, should it be taken one step further to orchestrate bidirectionally market-to-market in market-driven value networks? The original principles of a value network that can sense, shape and translate demand with near-zero latency are being lost in the fog. Demand in the demand-driven network is about much, much more than forecasting.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. The network design technologies have changed a lot in the last decade. (I ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein.

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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. In 2017, when I moved, I bought an old car. Let me explain. Labor Shortages.