Managed Services: The “Stretch Armstrong” of Logistics
Adrian Gonzalez
August 4, 2014
One of my favorite toys as a boy was Stretch Armstrong, a muscle-man action figure with a stretchable body. As the catalog picture below illustrates,
This Week in Logistics News (July 21-25, 2014)
Adrian Gonzalez
July 25, 2014
There are a lot better ways to wake up at 5 AM than getting a telephone call saying, “Your 7:00 AM flight has been cancelled.”
Time to Transform Your Decision-Making Process?
Adrian Gonzalez
June 25, 2014
A problem or other situation arises in your supply chain and a decision needs to be made quickly on what action to take. Since all
Process Industry Moving Up the Supply Chain Maturity Curve
Adrian Gonzalez
June 16, 2014
I often joke that if you work in the process industry, you don’t feel a lot of love from supply chain analysts and publications because
Do You Have a “Top 25” Supply Chain?
Adrian Gonzalez
June 2, 2014
Last week, Gartner announced its annual Supply Chain Top 25 rankings, and like every year, it sparked a lot of commentary and debate about the
The Big (Crappy) Data Problem in Supply Chain Management
Adrian Gonzalez
May 28, 2014
In The Achilles’ Heel of Supply Chain Management (Harvard Business Review, May 2001), the authors write : Ever since retailers equipped their cash registers with
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