Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2018

They will meet the Philadelphia Eagles, who crushed the Minnesota Vikings 38-7 in the NFC title game, a week from Sunday in Minneapolis, MN. In yet another impressive comeback, the New England Patriots topped the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20 in the AFC title game to move on to their 10th Super Bowl, and 8th in the Belichick – Brady era.

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

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

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 16, 2023

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Spirit Halloween are two of those companies that participated in the conference sessions. The Commerce Platform in Action A number of companies that utilize Körber’s order management software (Enspire Commerce) in conjunction with other Körber applications.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 9, 2015

Robert Meyers , Planning Manager Americas, BP Lubricants, Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2014. Lora Cecere , Supply Chain Insights, Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2014. Future stops include London, Beijing, Paris, Sydney and Philadelphia, with the tour landing in Amsterdam in November. Confirm your seat today.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (2017: September, Philadelphia). LogiChem US 2018 , November 12-13, Philadelphia, PA. Amber Road : eVOLVE 2018 , TBA (2017: May 11-12, Washington, DC). BluJay Solutions: SOAR 2018 , May 14-17, Orlando, FL. Command Alkon : ELEVATE 2018 , TBA (2017: November 8-9, New Orleans, LA).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Philadelphia streets are swarming with crowds from the Superbowl win. So, in short, there are many facets to rethink analytics and drive business value through the Art of the Possible. It requires testing existing paradigms and redefining old processes. I hope this helps. I look forward to getting your feedback. I am going to close now.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The pilot program will be available at its store in the Philadelphia suburb of Conshohocken through September 19 and will eventually roll out to additional markets. Fully assembled furniture will be assessed based on its condition, age and functionality, but some categories of products like dressers will not be eligible for the program.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. The streets below me today are icy and wet. It is a dark and dismal day. However, not for long. New Year’s Eve is a time for parties.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It operates three networks—the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas, where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. About Conrail . Conrail is an American railroad company. Advantages of rail transport: .

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 30, 2022

Ideas about how to more efficiently “re-commerce” returned goods into the supply chain seemed the most fresh and fruitful up for discussion on the first day of Home Delivery World in Philadelphia, Aug.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

On October 15th, I will be speaking on the Qunitiq World Tour in Philadelphia. Next week I will be speaking at the Llamasoft Summercon conference (follow this link to see the slides). Along the way, I will be doing more work on network design case studies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

I will be speaking at the Elemica customer conference Insights and will share my reviews with the Shaman’s readership from Philadelphia on June 11 th. The user interface of the solution is very promising. I am often asked about the differences between these and the conventional supply chain visibility solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 19, 2018

For more on this, please attend the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4th-7th in Philadelphia. So, the methodology, while not perfect, is helpful to understand which practices translate to value. We have 40 seats left and hope to see you there! It is a conference to have you think differently and drive new outcomes.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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. Did you attend Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia? Let me know what you thought!

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 30, 2017

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.) Instead of the direct from San Francisco to Philadelphia, I was to fly on United to Newark and take a train from Newark to Philadelphia.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2016

While many companies have invested significant time and money over the years to improve their demand, supply, and manufacturing planning capabilities, they have underinvested in workforce planning and optimization, and they’re now starting to feel the consequences.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2018

The event is on September 4th-7th in Philadelphia, PA. .” If you are a software vendor, I hope that this gives you pause. Have a great week. I hope to see you at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 8, 2014

It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. The deserts of the southwest sprawl below me as the plane ascends from San Diego. It appears SO barren from my window in seat 4D. It has been a good week.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. Hospitals throughout the region send the most complex and critically ill and injured to Cooper for treatment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

There will be no technology sales personnel or market teams at the 2018 Summit in Philadelphia. As a result, the 2018 Summit will be smaller and more intimate, but with a focus on business leaders. Mark your calendars for September 4th-7th. We hope to see you there.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 31, 2015

Presented at the Quintiq World Tour in Philadelphia, Dr Brian Blodgett, Associate Vice President, Scheduling, and Nicole Lowe, Scheduling Coordinator, from American Public University System (APUS), highlight how APUS has improved course scheduling operations. Get your free guide. APUS solves workforce scheduling puzzle with Quintiq.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference, TBA (usually in September in Philadelphia). Home Delivery World 2019 , April 3-5, Philadelphia, PA. Happy learning and networking in 2019! Vendor Conferences (alphabetical order). BluJay Solutions: SOAR 2019 , April 23-26, Orlando, FL. Command Alkon : ELEVATE 2019 , November 5-6, Chicago, IL.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

It was a sultry day in Philadelphia. Last week, it felt like August not May. I found myself counting the street signs to be sure that I was on track for my 8:00 a.m. client meeting. Not being a morning person, my feet mechanically moved my body forward.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 16, 2021

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes weekly reports on the state of produce transit, and across the board, markets from Atlanta through Philadelphia report shortages. USDA Data Points to Capacity Shortage After Capacity Shortage Through Produce Season.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.”

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

In the other direction, prices on the lane from Atlanta to Philadelphia fell 20¢ to $2.31/mile, For example, if you’re already taking advantage of the high rates for van loads going from Columbus to Philadelphia , you can add a stop to Buffalo on the way back to take advantage of the high rates from Buffalo to Columbus.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

But the truth is that Black Friday owes its name to the Philadelphia Police Department, which did not have profitability in mind.”[1] In the middle years of the twentieth century, the scene was often particularly bad in Philadelphia, where the annual Army-Navy football game was regularly played on the weekend after Thanksgiving.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Never Living the Same Day Twice: The Art and Joy of Solving Supply Chain Puzzles (Takeaways from Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia Conference). CLX Logistics: Annual Customer Conference , TBA (2015: September, Philadelphia). in Philadelphia). Supply Chain Talent: Insights from CSCMP Annual Conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I love photography, and mused as I walked into the shop on that rainy day in Philadelphia. ” I hate buzzwords and try to sidestep hype, but as I held my mug tight in my hand on a cold Philadelphia day, I thought more about the photo shop experience. I smiled when I saw that they still printed film the old-fashioned way.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was the inaugural supply chain event for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. Checkout the presentation posted on slideshare. ). In my discussion, I used the chart in Figure 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 11, 2015

for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the content for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September. If you answer our S&OP survey , we will share the aggregate results with you and your team. __. Life is busy at Supply Chain Insights. We are working on the completion of our new game— SCI Impact !—for

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. I am recovering from bronchitis. I am reflective as the rain sheets down my window. My travels this week took me to California and Boston.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

This week, I sent personal invites to business leaders and Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners to attend the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4-7th in 2018 in Philadelphia, PA. The registrations are rolling in. We expect it to sell-out.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It is a beautiful fall day in Philadelphia. This afternoon I put the finishing touches on a new report, “What Is the Value Proposition for Sales and Operations Planning?” ” I think it is the most complete assessment of the S&OP value proposition I have seen in the industry. It is always fun to write great research.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference in Philadelphia.

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