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Congratulating the Supply Chains to Admire Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

There are 31 winners: seven in retail, eleven in process industries and thirteen in discrete industries. Each year as I work with the team to compile the data, and sort through the winners, the growing strength in retail surprises me (despite the Amazon effect) and the slow decline in performance in manufacturing.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Wall Street Journal Headline on Retailers Using Containers to Store Excess Inventories. However, with declining customer sentiment, few were in the stores.

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Innovations that drive business decisions forward

DELMIA Quintiq

At Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2016, attendees were encouraged to think about the past, present and future of their businesses from a fresh perspective as they gained insights into the latest analytics and optimization technology. Covering wide ground on manufacturing. Did you attend Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia?

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Building Outside-in Processes: Answering A Question From the Audience

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retail forecasts are never a good source of data for the manufacturer. This was the inaugural supply chain event for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. Checkout the presentation posted on slideshare. ). Trust but Verify.

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Supply Chain Matters Perspectives From Your Editor

Supply Chain Matters

They provide a series of ongoing themes: Production and supply chain activity levels continuing to reflect global manufacturing recession and by our lens, again at a crossroad for added shifts. Continued data and developments reinforcing recessionary conditions among global freight, logistics and online retail activity levels.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I highlighted that many toy manufacturers were looking to maximize holiday profits by selling more “ squishy ” toys. The retail group is also a minority shareholder in Cajoo. Hasbro has announced this week that its toys will be ready for the holiday season despite the ongoing supply chain crisis.

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ThankX Delivery Services!

Supply Chain Game Changer

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)!