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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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

We continue to push the envelope to help companies test these technologies through the share group for the network of networks. Philadelphia streets are swarming with crowds from the Superbowl win. While immature, the two together offer great promise. The next session is at the GS1 Headquarters in Chicago on April 4th-5th.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2014

This is a networking group that meets by phone once a month. In preparation for the call, I had given the group a list of emerging technologies that I am watching and I asked each person to come to the call ready to talk about technologies that they are working with. I will be landing soon in Philadelphia. Related.

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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. With the influx of unprecedented hurricane impacts on United Supply Chain operations, the CLX group was smaller than expected, but I found the group (albeit small) invigorating. … a group of energized innovators.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This was the focus of the sixth DELMIA Quintiq World Tour Series, which covered five locations around the world: Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Philadelphia, Barcelona and Moscow. Leading DELMIA Quintiq customers, Southwest Airlines, Hulamin, Slovenian Steel Group and Petronas, also presented at the event.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Another organization that we work with funds innovation funds for business groups to tap to test and learn with new forms of analytics. In these organizations, there is a more natural interchange between groups. The good news is that many analytics projects are small and incremental with sequential learning. Please let me know.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

For this story, I have grouped like competitors together. Year-over-year they have driven operating margin improvement while outperforming their peer group on inventory turns. The company struggled through acquisitions to maintain profitability and operates at an asset utilization level below their peer group. Defining a Titan.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Altimeter Group’s Lora Cecere posted on her blog Supply Chain Shaman, the top 5 questions she is asked. Personally, I can’t wait for her 6 – 10 list and I will be sure to ask her about it when we meet up in Philadelphia next week at CSCMP Global Annual Conference 2011. What your colleagues are burning to know?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (usually in September in Philadelphia). Descartes Systems Group : Evolution 2019 , March 26-28, Naples, FL. Home Delivery World 2019 , April 3-5, Philadelphia, PA. BluJay Solutions: SOAR 2019 , April 23-26, Orlando, FL. Command Alkon : ELEVATE 2019 , November 5-6, Chicago, IL.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The retail group is also a minority shareholder in Cajoo. ounded in 2013 in its hometown of Philadelphia, the company now serves customers in more than 1,000 cities and operates 500-plus micro-fulfillment centers and retail locations across the United States and Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. I will meet with a small group of supply chain leaders to discuss analytics and supply chain organizations at the Shaman’s Circle on Amelia Island and I am preparing to do a focus group session for Elemica early next week. I am recovering from bronchitis. What do you think of the news?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Never Living the Same Day Twice: The Art and Joy of Solving Supply Chain Puzzles (Takeaways from Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia Conference). CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference , TBA (2015: September, Philadelphia). Descartes Systems Group : Evolution 2016 , April 5-7, West Palm Beach, FL. in Philadelphia).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I love photography, and mused as I walked into the shop on that rainy day in Philadelphia. ” I hate buzzwords and try to sidestep hype, but as I held my mug tight in my hand on a cold Philadelphia day, I thought more about the photo shop experience. I smiled when I saw that they still printed film the old-fashioned way.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2016

CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (2016: September, Philadelphia). Descartes Systems Group : Evolution 2017 , March 28-30, West Palm Beach, FL. LogiChem US 2017 , TBA (2016: December 12-13, Philadelphia, PA). Vendor Conferences (alphabetical order). Elemica : TBA , various dates and locations in US and Europe.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (2017: September, Philadelphia). Descartes Systems Group : Evolution 2018 , March 6-8, West Palm Beach, FL. LogiChem US 2018 , November 12-13, Philadelphia, PA. BluJay Solutions: SOAR 2018 , May 14-17, Orlando, FL. APICS 2018 , September 30 – October 2, Chicago, IL.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 18, 2018

Side-step big projects and large consulting groups. This week, I sent personal invites to business leaders and Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners to attend the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA. Test and learn with technologists. Business Leader Goals for Five Years.

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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. When I do workshops on driving data sharing across the industry, the sales group of the seller of products often calls me aside for a one-on-one talk. On the door of my favorite coffee shop is a closed sign. This is a barrier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In meetings, groups nod their heads that the strategy is correct. The greatest impact is between the supply chain organization and the finance group. for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September. At a principle level, everyone agrees with the concepts.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

How do you stack up to your peer group? Analyze your DNA against a peer group in the organizational analysis. Three courses are scheduled for in Philadelphia. Consider grouping some of these offerings together to build a guiding coalition. If this is you, we would like to offer to help. Here we share some insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

I am working with one company that made an error of handing over digital innovation to a strategic consulting group under the guise of improving “master data.” We hope to see you at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA. Sidestep the potholes. ” Buyer beware.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

In Figure 1, performance better than average for the peer group is highlighted in light green. Overall, in the industry, there is more forward momentum in consumer products sector than the food/beverage peer groups. They cannot be grouped together. Supply chain leaders make progress in three-to-five years. How Have They Done?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

It is now owned by Gartner Group and used as a commercial tool to drive client engagements. There is no consideration of relative performance against peer group or evaluation of year-over-year improvement. for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the content for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

My next call was with a group of leaders working on supply chain planning in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. Spend time, as a group, to define requirements at each level of the planning architecture as shown in Figure 3. Start with the finance group. Figure 1: Current State of Sales and Operations Planning.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Andrew Chung, CEO of Innovo Property Group, explains, “[The] explosive growth of online purchasing and competition among online retailers has resulted in a race to reach consumers. All of these innovations are making last mile logistics much more complicated. Behind this focus on last mile delivery is customer expectations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

the company is owned today by 20 organizations representing manufacturers, distributors, hospitals and group purchasing organizations (GPOs). I will be speaking at the Elemica customer conference Insights and will share my reviews with the Shaman’s readership from Philadelphia on June 11 th. Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic, Inc.—the

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

It’s like going from Brooklyn, NY to Philadelphia, PA. Robinson , Descartes Systems Group , and Elemica — and the many friends and family members who have already donated for your generous support. How far is 100 miles? How long will it take me? Well, it took me just over 7 hours last year in Death Valley !

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

JDA® Software Group, Inc. NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, today announced that Fabrizio Brasca, vice president, global logistics, JDA Software, will participate in a panel discussion at the CSCMP Annual Global Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pa. About JDA Software Group, Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

As shown in Table A, the Company ranked 3 out of 12 companies in their peer group on driving supply chain improvement as measured by the Supply Chain Index. Next year, the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit will be in Philadelphia on September 4th-7th. The company makes highly complex machines at a low-volume.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 6, 2015

It is finally spring in Philadelphia. We have pulled the data from the field on the Supply Chain Centers of Excellence survey; and to gain insights to finalize my thoughts for the report, I am sharing the data with two groups of supply chain leaders: those that have a center of excellence, and those that do not. I love spring.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

When we study 600 public companies by peer group, at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin, only 5% drive improvement. Also, the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is on September 4 th -7 th in Philadelphia, PA. Question the Basics. Unable to go forward, companies speak of “basics” and the need for “best practices.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

I am sure that there will be more over the next month, but here are my first ah-ha moments: 1) Planning Productivity is Grouped within a Tight Cluster across Companies. In the work that we just completed, we see that companies in the same peer group for the same period of time, may have the best forecast, but not the best inventory results.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 24, 2017

According to Tonya Garcia’s article, Amazon joins Martha Stewart for meal kit delivery as battle for online grocery heats up , the brand Martha & Marley Spoon, the result of a partnership between Stewart, whose brand is part of the Sequential Brands Group portfolio, and Marley Spoon Inc., and Philadelphia metro areas. Target Corp.

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Supply Chain Network

JULY 10, 2011

Myers, 56, will lead the functional groups that make up the company’s integrated supply chain, including Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering and Customer Service and Logistics. Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) announced today (June 30th) that Daniel Myers will join the company in September as Executive Vice President, Supply Chain.

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ShipBob

MARCH 23, 2020

Use these core sections to find resources available to each specified group: For healthcare professionals. They will deliver free, fresh salads and bowls to hospitals in the cities they serve: DC Area, Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, and Houston. We will continuously add to this article as we get more submissions. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

The focus in supply chain groups was not on how to design the operations so that they were more effective; instead it was about the use of best practices to maximize the value of what we had. Today, three out of four companies greater than 10B$ have a network design group that averages seven people. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

…have contests, small share groups and sponsor innovation labs. We are working on the completion of our new game– SCI Impact – for the public training in Philadelphia in June and August and the content for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September. This will be a series of test and learn. Figure 1: Changing the How.

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