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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

Manufacturing teams used to manage the supply chain group. Today, in most organizations, the supply chain team manages manufacturing. The irony is that fewer and fewer people within the supply chain team understand manufacturing. Many of the partners in the room work on service part supply chains.

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. I jeopardized the release date of the book by taking an extra three months to finish the Supply Chain Index work. Since supply chain can be a bit boring, I made it into a narrative.

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A New Red Wagon?

Supply Chain Shaman

I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. There are seismic shifts occurring between industries in value chains. The Supply Chain Index is the rate of supply chain improvement. Not supply chain excellence… ) Post recession growth rates slowed 57% when compared to pre-recession.