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The Backorder, April 10 2024

Unleashed

US manufacturing activity expands for first time since 2022. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3% Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. When shoppers to spend more on each purchase it has a desirable effect on your profits. in March – up 2.5%

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. They are step change requiring either the redeployment of existing technologies or the purchase of new platforms. The acronyms keep coming…. The cadence does not stop. Details matter.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Allianz Safety and Shipping Review- The Good and Not Good

Supply Chain Matters

The incident of the container ship Dali striking and destroying the Francis Scott Key spanning the Port of Baltimore falls within two of these categories. Report authors indicate that most incidents have been related to machinery damage or failure, followed by collisions with other vessels, or contact with port infrastructure.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. Last month, I was at a chemical manufacturer, and the Chief Supply Chain Officer walked me to the elevator. It is a beautiful day in Baltimore.

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If You Are Not a Step Ahead, You Are Behind.

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A couple of weeks ago, ISM and Spend Matters had their first Eprocurement Technology Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on the Inner Harbor. Manufacturers and their strategic suppliers are realizing that they need to change their thinking and the way they do business. I attended with a few colleagues from Directworks.