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The Year Ahead with Doug Waggoner

The Logistics of Logistics

From April 2004 to December 2005, Waggoner served as Chief Executive Officer of USF Bestway, and from January 2002 to April 2004 he served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing for USF Corporation.

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Building Value Networks. Stopping the Backward Slide.

Supply Chain Shaman

I was a Gartner analyst in the period of 2000-2002 when trading exchanges were cool. The portal–with all of its limitations–is analogous to the flip phone: functionally inadequate. A portal is an information dead-end street. Like a rocket ship traveling to Mars, a new press release popped into my email each day.

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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

Short of the initial launch of B2B exchanges in 2002, no brand owner drove the adoption of network technologies. In 2002, I was a Gartner analyst covering the evolution of network technologies in supply chains. (A blackhole is an astronomical term where the pull is so great that no matter escapes.) Brand Owner Vacuum.

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What does increasing regulatory oversight mean for the pharma supply chain?

The Network Effect

Within a decade, the number of FDA warning letters sent to medical device manufacturers has increased threefold, from 61 letters in 2002 to 181 in 2012 (EC A 2012). The number of FDA inspections of drug and biologics manufacturers has also grown.

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Trane Technologies’ Digital Simulation Journey

DELMIA Quintiq

1] Although the Digital Twin terminology has evolved since its inception in 2002 by Dr. M. These capabilities will put Trane Technologies at the forefront of the industry to which they belong and support their digital transformation, Industry 4.0 and sustainability strategies. [1] Grieves, the basic concept has generally remained the same.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

The details: 2001-Acquired Clairol for 4.9B$ 2002-Divestiture of Jif and Crisco to Smuckers–813M in Stock 2003-Acquisition of Wella for 7B$ 2005-Merger with Gilette for 57B$ 2008-Purchase of Nioxin for 300M$ 2009-Purchased Art of Shaving for 60M$ 2009-purchased ZIRH for 40M. The results are questionable.

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Laboratory Experiments in Supply Chain Research

SCM Research

Nobel laureates rarely publish articles in journals within the supply chain arena.

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