Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. Soon thereafter, the genesis of #ThankX was born: Concierge Community Couriers (based in our very own Philadelphia)!

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2016, attendees were encouraged to think about the past, present and future of their businesses from a fresh perspective as they gained insights into the latest analytics and optimization technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2018

Companies that are better at supply chain planning are better able to manage operating margins and inventory turns. The largest is the “willingness for the software company to go the extra mile.” Since many companies struggle to retain talent, this might be a viable option. It is the same as a flip of the coin.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 30, 2017

The flight into San Francisco on American was six hours late arriving at 7:00 AM EST. (I had scheduled the last flight out of Philadelphia on a Sunday night to spend the afternoon with my grandchildren.) Instead of the direct from San Francisco to Philadelphia, I was to fly on United to Newark and take a train from Newark to Philadelphia.

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Stord

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Stord is on a mission to help leading companies build and scale optimized, cloud-based supply chains. We’re providing technology and freight solutions for shippers and warehouses across North America at a time when e-commerce is creating new challenges for supply chains and companies are adopting different software across systems. “We

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. In my work I encouraged companies to improve their demand forecasts and advocated, that if this happened, overall performance could improve. The streets below me today are icy and wet.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2018

It is now our fifth year of analyzing balance sheets to understand which companies are outperforming their peer groups on the metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while driving improvement. We group companies by industry sector because the industries are so different in performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

A strained request from a marketing director for a software company ensued, “You did not list us in your analytics report, and we want to know why.” While blockchain and cognitive computing are believed to be the most disruptive within five years, less than 7% of companies are actively testing these technologies today.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company said it has invested more in inventory planning and partnerships with suppliers so it has enough goods on hand while making sure it can route items to where they’re urgently needed. Amazon is clearly not the only company making plans for the upcoming holiday season. The company’s operating profit rose to $2.9

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Companies are looking at two in particular: Prescriptive Analytics and Machine Learning. . The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 10, 2018

“someone must have their mojo working over at the record company” In the 1990s supply chain had MOJO. 90% of public manufacturing companies are treading wate r. ” In England, we have a plethora of event organizers that roll-out many questionable events largely funded by technology companies. mo·jo: noun.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Companies that are good at demand management understand the need for design–form & function of inventory and push/pull decoupling points –and the orchestration of demand to make better decisions in sourcing, transportation and delivery.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Today, based on a recent study with 113 process companies, an organization’s probability of success with an IT project is almost the same as the toss of a coin. Based on a recent study of 113 process manufacturers, only 58% of companies report that their projects meet their business objectives. The average company spends 1.7%

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. I live in city-center Philadelphia. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Lynchburg, Virgina, this is a story of a small company (90 employees and $25M in sales). In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% In essence, their companies would mobilize only when mandated.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Public markets reward growth; and as year-over-year revenues slow, companies attempt to grow using tactics like new product launch, price incentives and trade promotion management. Companies with the lower score on the Index are driving faster rates of metrics improvement. Unfortunately, most companies are not good at these basics.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2017

I am one of the keynote speakers, along with two-time gold medalist and FIFA World Cup winner Mia Hamm, Bill Driegert (Chief Innovation Officer at Otto), and Jon Dorenbos (two-time NFL Pro Bowler with the Philadelphia Eagles and a finalist last year on America’s Got Talent). How should companies respond to these realizations?

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Companies are looking at two in particular: Prescriptive Analytics and Machine Learning. The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

” A Demand Planner for a Large Multinational Pharmaceutical Company. The implementation of demand sensing puts the fate of the company in the hands of an optimization tool. And, yes, many companies fail before they succeed. It just means that the company didn’t take the right steps to get ready.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 31, 2015

Good planning and optimization can lead to huge savings – ask most of the world’s leading companies. Discover how the world’s largest paints and coatings company is improving productivity, delivery reliability and responsiveness in seven sites – with just one planning and optimization platform. AkzoNobel case study.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration. Cross-Company Academy is a 7 month online training course, Bootcamp is a 2 day in-person training course.)

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Stord

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ATLANTA, Nov. 7, 2017 -- STORD is excited to announce that we are expanding our network adding key distribution hubs in Los Angeles , Pennsylvania , Dallas , and Chicago. These hubs will serve to compliment our already existing nationwide network of facilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2018

Companies asked for integrated supply chain planning. In the last year, she worked with three consulting companies. In the last year, she worked with three consulting companies. The company agreed to move forward. Companies with a strong center of excellence and clear definition of supply chain excellence do this best.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. There was a large industry pull of technology providers, consultants and business leaders pushing the belief that the best-run companies had great ERP systems.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Simply put, give priority to events where you will walk away with knowledge and information that you can immediately apply at your company to get your job done better and faster. CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (usually in September in Philadelphia). Home Delivery World 2019 , April 3-5, Philadelphia, PA.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Unfortunately, as I’ve written in the past, many companies still underinvest in talent and leadership development , and it’s among the first budget items they cut when cost pressures arise. For leading companies, however, talent development is not a leap of faith — it’s a strategic investment. in Philadelphia).

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Companies are looking at two in particular: Prescriptive Analytics and Machine Learning. The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

The innovation you need today will not come from large consultants or technology companies. Instead, companies need to build it into digital process redefinition like digital path-to-purchase, digital procurement, digital agriculture, digital manufacturing or digital service. Locate them in an innovation center, not a function.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

But how do companies best translate strategy to action? Most companies, along with consultants, feel that they know the definition of supply chain excellence. My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It is a beautiful fall day in Philadelphia. The processes are very different by company. As companies focus on improving the maturity and effectiveness of Sales and Operations Planning, there are three recommendations embedded in the research for consideration: 1. It is always fun to write great research. This is not trivial.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. The stock plunged, and the company announced the intent to find a buyer in the Wall Street Journal. Today, the market capitalization value of the company is 197M. Running a public software company in the supply chain management space is a tough job. I am recovering from bronchitis.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Simply put, give priority to events where you will walk away with knowledge and information that you can immediately apply at your company to get your job done better and faster. CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (2016: September, Philadelphia). LogiChem US 2017 , TBA (2016: December 12-13, Philadelphia, PA).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

For the past month, I have been working alongside companies implementing digital strategies. In most companies, I find, that there is an organizational imperative, but no consensus on the goal. Instead of pushing innovation forward, I see companies using the term “digital” as a path for IT spending. ” Incrementalism.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 21, 2022

FTL works well for big companies transporting large volumes, whereas LTL is suitable for fast growing eCommerce companies with smaller shipments. In LTL, packages are combined with other companies’ cargo traveling along the same route, so the cost of transportation is shared. Plus, with fewer stops, FTL transit is faster.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

However, at a practical level, companies struggle with the implementation of strategy due to a lack of definition. In my work with organizations, I ask companies to be patient and remember that we are on a journey. Today, while companies speak the words of end-to-end supply chain management, there is functional quagmire.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Simply put, give priority to events where you will walk away with knowledge and information that you can immediately apply at your company to get your job done better and faster. CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (2017: September, Philadelphia). LogiChem US 2018 , November 12-13, Philadelphia, PA.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference in Philadelphia. — not only within your company, but across your trading partner network too (shippers, logistics service providers, and consignees).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). The high-flying company had no clarity of purpose or clear governance, but the funds kept coming. In the Gartner article, I cautioned companies to invest only if three conditions were met: A well-defined scope. Transora had a short history.

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