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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. Today, nine out of ten supplychains are stuck. Despite two decades of advancement in supplychain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. For me, this has been discovery.
Or will companies stumble on the path by mistakenly implementing supply-centric processes and calling them demand-driven initiatives? As a writer of research on demand-driven supplychains for over eight years, I find many amusing. Supplychain leaders feel stuck. They are piling up on my desk. It is still early.
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A couple of weeks ago, ISM and Spend Matters had their first Eprocurement Technology Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on the Inner Harbor. Financing trade and supplychain as a business- Financing payables and receivables is anything but covered at this point– per Jason. I attended with a few colleagues from Directworks.
SupplyChain Matters provides highlights for the recently released Allianz Safety and Shipping Review 2024 Report. With as much as 90 percent of international trade being transported across ocean waterways, there are important findings for multi-industry supplychain and logistics management teams included in this report.
An example in the supplychain space is US maritime policy. What is to stop individuals from using other gateways in the region such as Baltimore or Washington DC to enter the country? With manufacturing already running at peak capacity, supplies may begin to fall short.
retailers have been pulling forward their 2024 holiday fulfillment inventory needs as a hedge toward deepening global supplychain disruptions, geopolitical developments and rising freight rates. Added Perspectives In June we published a SupplyChain Matters industry commentary titled What’s Up in Exploding Freight Rates.
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This is a significant acquisition that will change the supplychain software landscape. One Network provides supplychain planning, execution and a multi-enterprise supplychain network solution. Supplychain software vendor Descartes Systems Group has acquired OCR Services Inc.,
A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River that leads to the Port of Baltimore. Then there are the implications for various industry supplychains.
The SupplyChain Matters blog provides an updated news capsule follow-regarding supplychain management and industry developments that we have shared previously on this blog. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River that leads to the Port of Baltimore , closing this key U.S. All rights reserved.
It has been just over two weeks since a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River , blocking the main shipping channel that leads to the Port of Baltimore.
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