Logistics Viewpoints
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Supply chain problems, towering global demands for weapons and the need to work with allies to get it all done means that the America First movement should wait. President Joe Biden and an influential bloc of lawmakers from both parties want more U.S. military hardware to be made in America.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source.
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes. The optimization routines single thread through functions not enabling trade-offs across source, make, and deliver.
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 18, 2018
As a leader of a global supply chain organization, her goal was simple. The solutions optimize source, make and deliver within silos, but lack the ability to drive alignment and improve agility. This includes postponement, common platforms, product formula simplification, alternate sourcing, and buffer strategies. They got it.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Last week, I bought a shirt at Bloomingdales on Walnut Street in Philadelphia for 1$. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. This week, we kick off the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. In my 68 years on this planet, I have never seen such deep discounts.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
In manufacturing-based companies, 70-80% of costs are in the processes of source, make and deliver. While the practices of finance are over 200 years old, in contrast, supply chain as a cross-functional practice (the combination of make, source and deliver) was recently defined in 1982. Is talent a cost or an asset?
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. The recent Supply Chain Insights Global Summit gave me new perspective and insights. Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Growth from M&A, and globalization is slowing. 3D Printing.
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