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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 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. The acronyms keep coming….

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. In my work on the Supply Chain Index , I see that companies I recognize as doing network design well are rising faster on the list of the Supply Chain Index work. The network design technologies have changed a lot in the last decade. (I Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck.

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DOT Gives $500 Million in Grants to Much-Needed Infrastructure Projects

GTG Technology Group

The truck parking initiative looks to optimize truck parking areas and make them easier to find. The initiative will use a combination of apps, websites, and other factors to optimize parking areas along major routes. The six canal bridges in Lowell, MA are in various states of disrepair and a major source of inconvenience.

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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.