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In order to quote a lead time, the customer representative had to follow a long, drawn-out process of calling the tile distributor in the state of Washington and leaving a message – only to finally get back to me the next day to tell me that the shipment might be available around next week. I chose predictable availability.

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After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/…. Someone even went as far in a Washington Times op-ed to say “It’s worse than 2008, it reassembles 1937…”. Read More ».

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2015

This past Tuesday, I gave a lecture at MIT on transportation management systems (co-presented with MercuryGate , which gave the students an optimization problem to solve and a demo of its TMS). an alcohol-delivery startup operating in Washington. . to order beer online and have it delivered within an hour. JDA’s Retail.Me

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