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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. My search for truth led me to research. What is research? This thing called research in the supply chain market has many arms and legs. It is a dark and dismal day. The issue?

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Software Planning: Satisfaction is Like a Flip of a Coin

Supply Chain Shaman

As we prepare for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the Supply Chain Insights team is combing through the research data collected over the past six years. In our research, we find that there is only one satisfied business user out of two. The event is on September 4th-7th in Philadelphia, PA. Have a great week.

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SCM Best Paper Award Winners 2012 (1/2)

SCM Research

The conference offers a unique opportunity to meet many researchers, whose faces are obscured behind references for the rest of the year. Research Article Award Conference Supply Chain Management' I have attended the CSCMP’s Supply Chain Management Educators’ Conference (SCMEC) in Atlanta. part 2/2 ).

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Christmas and the Poinsettia Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service, “live tree imports reached nearly 2.8 Eventually, a sample from Poinsett made its way to a Philadelphia Botanic Garden, which debuted the plant in the U.S. People seldom think about the supply chains that make those items available. homes are imported. 3] Marina E.

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Good People Can Make A Difference In Outcomes

Supply Chain Shaman

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.) Based on a research study, the management team decided that Marriott would no longer have room service. This was a bad week.

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How Supply Chain Lost Its Mojo

Supply Chain Shaman

The strong spending by SAP and Oracle in the analyst models were a barrier to independent thought, and while the analysts speak of a research model, there is usually too little research and too much influence by technologists with larger wallets. Just as we need free press, supply chain management needs independent research.

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Supply Chain Matters Perspectives From Your Editor

Supply Chain Matters

This very week, smoke plumes generated from raging wildfires across Canada settled across major cities such as Boston , New York and Philadelphia creating rather hazardous air quality conditions. The effects in rising global warming levels have again become cogent and personal for millions. All rights reserved.