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Baltimore Bridge Collapse- A Reminder of Supply Chain Risk

Supply Chain Matters

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. The collision caused this massive bridge spanning 1.6 All rights reserved.

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FreightTech Investment Environment with John Larkin

The Logistics of Logistics

His mission is to help craft the firm’s growth strategy while assisting with deal sourcing, capital raising, and the creation of value within portfolio companies. Systems Engineering Consultant with Day & Zimmermann, Inc., Larkin became Strategic Advisor at Clarendon, and was named Chair of the firm’s Advisory Board.

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Logistics Industry Outlook with John Larkin

The Logistics of Logistics

His mission is to help craft the firm’s growth strategy while assisting with deal sourcing, capital raising, and the creation of value within portfolio companies. Systems Engineering Consultant with Day & Zimmermann, Inc., Larkin became Strategic Advisor at Clarendon, and was named Chair of the firm’s Advisory Board.

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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 “We believe that cognitive computing is going to change industries and the way work gets done –and we can deploy systems that learn and become smarter through time and perform the jobs we do.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. User satisfaction with planning systems is low. Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Cloud-based analytics for sourcing and the management of supplier networks are evolving and should be embraced. Why is this happening?

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. Which would lead them to implement text mining/sentiment analysis as a core project for 2013 into their business intelligence systems. Supply chain systems are based on transactional data. It could redefine quality systems.

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Questions Companies with U.S.-Mexico Trade Should be Asking

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Specifically discussing how the internet of things will impact supply chains, he said: The internet of things provides companies the ability to source parts and inputs, and sell, globally. When the Automated Commercial Environment system goes down in San Diego for two hours during produce season, or when the U.S. Kass described. .

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