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. To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective.

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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. Digital sourcing? Digital path to purchase? I reflected.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. In contrast, in the process industries, the supply chain organization reported to manufacturing. Over the course of the last decade, companies have moved at different rates to align source, make and deliver processes to report to common leader.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Let me start with a true confession: I am a manufacturing gal. I relished the sound of a manufacturing line when I opened the door of the factory in the morning, and I liked managing inputs so that we could maximize outputs. Manufacturing is the foundation of my interest in supply chain management. It is now part of my DNA.

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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. SOURCE Kraft Foods. He succeeds David Brearton, who is now Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. make today delicious -.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

When source, make and deliver report to the same organization, progress is quicker. The company that plays to win does not strive to have the best manufacturing costs, or the best procurement practices; instead, the team focuses on winning together cross-functionally on a commonly held portfolio of metrics. Have a great weekend.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Much of this added container volume is attributed to either retailers front-loading their Q4 inventory purchases, or diversions related either to the likely threat of a U.S. port is that of Philadelphia , which is ranked 50 th globally. The volume reportedly averaged 939,000 TEU’s for each of these three months. Not all U.S.

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ShipBob

MARCH 23, 2020

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. There are countless measures to support local businesses that are closed at this time — from donations to purchasing gift cards. Submit your hospital here. Free scrubs: Figs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. I also believe that SAP is one of the best, if not the best, ERP system for most process manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

IBM is good at manufacturing terms that we both hate and love. While the manufacturing clients that I work with have strong IT relationships with SAP, and HANA is more and more a discussion, I think that we are missing several basic discussions. Today, we know analytics is exciting. We just are not clear on the outcome.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. I also believe that SAP is one of the best, if not the best, ERP system for most process manufacturers.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

The combination of weather and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia delayed all my flights for at least two hours on multiple days. Each are good at localized planning within a focused area of demand, supply, network design, transportation planning, material sourcing or finite scheduling. Process Integration Across Functions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

In most ‘benchmarking activities’, self-reported data is the most common source. It is for this reason, that I discount the reporting by APQC, Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF) and Grocery Manufacturing Association (GMA) benchmarking data. Self-reporting of data does not meet this standard. The reason is simple.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Feeling very green, I stumbled through the airport and found my way to my seat on the plane from Brussels to Philadelphia. <The I need a source of supply chain insights that is current.” The body is amazingly efficient in getting rid of what is making you sick. <The joys of international travel.>

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Today, we take these technologies for granted, but the electric motor was the genesis of the horizontal manufacturing plant. Alan spoke on the impact on business economies with the adoption of technologies. Why so long?

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Last week, I spoke at Quintiq’s World Tour event in Philadelphia , which featured several customers talking about the supply chain puzzles they faced — in manufacturing, logistics, and workforce management — and how they are working to solve them. Source: Quintiq.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 21, 2019

At LogiPharma 2019 in Philadelphia, Deepak Ghodke, Vice President, Bristlecone Labs, spoke about how it is, therefore, not at all surprising that the increase in AI adoption has also extended to enterprises in recent years. Artificial Intelligence has become so deeply engrained in our lives that we don’t always realize it anymore.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Logility’s Digital Supply Chain Platform offers support for a broad range of supply chain planning requirements, from sales and operations planning (S&OP) through manufacturing. Company and Technology. For more information about American Software, please visit www.amsoftware.com , call (626) 657-0013 or email kliu@amsoftware.com.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? study , 40% of consumers have purchased from retailers based outside the U.S., Today, with oil prices below $35 per barrel, the talk has shifted to prices declining even further, to perhaps $20 per barrel due to oversupply.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. The company was founded in 1905 when a Dutchman named CWH van Dam purchased a barge boat to transport goods between Germany and Rotterdam along the river Rhine. In 2019, Damco became a non-integrated brand of the A.P.

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QAD

APRIL 27, 2021

Morse code is behind one of the biggest revolutions in production and every form of manufacturing. In 1948, a Philadelphia supermarket manager contacted the dean at Drexel Institute of Technology looking for a way to move shoppers through the store and check-out lanes faster and make stock-taking more efficient.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The “Buy American” campaign, fueled by the promise of a domestic manufacturing boom and well-paying jobs right here at home, is gaining steam in Congress. Renewable energy firms are mostly suffering a dire earnings season as struggling supply chains, manufacturing faults and rising production costs eat into profits.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 31, 2017

This has always been too myopic a view of how technological innovation is distributed across the country, because of many other metropolitan areas and regions—from Phoenix to Salt Lake City to Philadelphia—are innovative hot spots, too, and many more areas are developing tech capabilities. Internet of Things, smart cities, etc.);

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Last week, I bought a shirt at Bloomingdales on Walnut Street in Philadelphia for 1$. Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. In my 68 years on this planet, I have never seen such deep discounts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2018

Together, we are testing use cases combining cognitive computing, blockchain, open source analytics, and Internet of Things (IOT). The internal dissonance within the manufacturing organization is deadly. When I mention Anaplan to manufacturing supply chain leaders, there is no recognition of the brand. The second is action.

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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. Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Localized manufacturing. Shipment and manufacturing of the unit of one. Next year’s event will be in Philadelphia on September 4th-7th.

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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. In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. On the door of my favorite coffee shop is a closed sign.

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QAD

MARCH 3, 2022

And the effects of the use of mobile devices and enabled communications on manufacturing, for example, have been staggering. Some important milestones in telephone history followed: The first phone line was operated between New York and Philadelphia in 1885. The Evolution of Communications in Manufacturing.

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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.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Incidents related to significant natural disasters such as the significantly large scale earthquakes and tsunami that impacted areas of Japan in 2011, or the global Covid-19 pandemic that caused the shutdown of multiple global wide factories or semiconductor fabricators are vivid examples for supply sourcing and management teams.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2025

These companies are spreading supply sources across multiple regions and developing backup plans, as well as using scenario planning to anticipate potential challenges and develop proactive solutions.”[6] Thousands of brick-and-mortar stores continue to close as consumers opt to make more purchases online.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Already, cities like Washington and Philadelphia are providing delivery only zones, but this may not be enough. The biobased economy is growing, and will continue to grow, as manufacturers look to find new sources of materials that are sustainable and which use renewable resources.

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