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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

The deserts of the southwest sprawl below me as the plane ascends from San Diego. I now have a working manuscript for the entire book of Metrics That Matter. It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. It has been a good week.

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4 Supply Chain Minds You Ought to Hear at Kinexions

Kinaxis

And as the saying goes, ‘You can’t manage what you can’t measure’ and questions remain regarding what metrics to use to measure the success of new planning solutions within EMEA Automotive. Join these and other insightful supply chain leaders this October in San Diego! Learn more.

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Talent Trap

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite multimillion dollar technology projects, and tomes of strategy documents, they are stuck in their ability to overcome market factors and rising complexity to drive continuous improvement on a portfolio of metrics. Our next supply chain training class is in San Diego on March 25th-26th. What does that mean?

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, as the east coast of the United States was deluged with rain, I basked in beautiful San Diego sun while attending the Logimed USA event. In this survey we find out some benchmark metrics on the number of demand planners per item, and the rate of adoption of demand and supply chain planning systems.

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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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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Multiple planners can create on-the-fly what-if scenarios simultaneously, make multiple changes, and then instantly understand the scenario’s impact to all teams, and quantify against cross-functional metrics and financial targets, without the planning getting out of sync. Concurrent planning is kind of amazing.

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Omni-channel Emerging as Top Retail Logistics Issue

Supply Chain Network

December is now upon us and before we know it we’ll be starting off 2014 right, which means it won’t be long until we’re all gathering in San Diego Feb 23 rd to 26 th for RILA Supply Chain 2014. Room 25, Tuesday Feb 25 th , 1:30 pm. Speaker(s): Debbie Fortnum, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Belk, Inc. ?