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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. 22,000 sourcing events. $50 740,000 purchase orders. An example was provided to show how a requisition can be generated in 90 seconds and drive locked in savings through a preferred source, and avoids over-specifying the requirement.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 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. The acronyms keep coming…. The cadence does not stop. Details matter.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

They price and position based on marketing swings. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. I believe that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer and VMware’s purchase of SocialCast are also steps in this direction. It is a beautiful day in Baltimore.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. The technologies enable the evaluation of both volumetric flows and cost. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck.

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Maryland Department of General Services Announces eMaryland Marketplace Advantage Goes Live

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BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Department of General Services today announced the Office of State Procurement launched the state’s new e-procurement system eMaryland Marketplace Advantage (eMMA). eMMA will allow buyers to collaborate with vendors from the bidding and contracting process all the way through the purchasing process.

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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. When the repair estimate was 5X the cost of the car, I wrote the dealer a check and drove off in a 2019 Lincoln Nautilus with 4,200 miles. Evaluate network design options to simplify sourcing and reduce the number of platforms.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

But Amazon is on track to purchase by next year as much electricity produced by solar, wind and other carbon-free sources as it uses to power its operations. Baltimore is not included in Global Port Tracker’s national totals because its data is reported later than other ports.