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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. From The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation , by Ludwig Edelstein.

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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. It believe that it will become part of the existing processes of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. It is a beautiful day in Baltimore. Total charges were $46 million with a $.09 09 impact on earnings per diluted share. Absolutely!

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Port of Baltimore to Reopen

Supply Chain Matters

A little over eight weeks since a container ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge spanning an entrance to the Port of Baltimore , the main channel is on track to open by the end of May. The post Port of Baltimore to Reopen first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management.

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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. I will be speaking on procurement analytics tomorrow, but got to attend a set of great sessions over the first half of the day. The first speaker was Anne Rung, Administrator from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Demand-driven concepts are expansive they extend from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier, but the areas of sales and procurement are often very resistant to the demand-driven concepts.

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If You Are Not a Step Ahead, You Are Behind.

ivalua

A couple of weeks ago, ISM and Spend Matters had their first Eprocurement Technology Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on the Inner Harbor. My advice to supply chain and procurement executives is to get in step with these trends or be run over by those who are. I attended with a few colleagues from Directworks.

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Allianz Safety and Shipping Review- The Good and Not Good

Supply Chain Matters

The incident of the container ship Dali striking and destroying the Francis Scott Key spanning the Port of Baltimore falls within two of these categories. Report authors indicate that most incidents have been related to machinery damage or failure, followed by collisions with other vessels, or contact with port infrastructure.