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This Week in Logistics News (June 2-6, 2014)
I’m giving a keynote presentation next week at the TMSA Annual Conference. The title of my presentation is What Business Are You In? The Case

Quick Poll: Biggest Blind Spot in Your Supply Chain?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve attended several user conferences, and not surprisingly, supply chain visibility remains a hot topic of conversation. And as I’ve

Do You Have a “Top 25” Supply Chain?
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

This Week in Logistics News (May 26-30, 2014)
I’m back from my father-son weekend of baseball, and in case you’re wondering what baseball heaven looks like, here’s a glimpse (with my son belting

The Big (Crappy) Data Problem in Supply Chain Management
In The Achilles’ Heel of Supply Chain Management (Harvard Business Review, May 2001), the authors write : Ever since retailers equipped their cash registers with

This Week in Logistics News (May 19-23, 2014)
As you read this, I’ll be driving to a baseball tournament with my oldest son, where we’ll spend the entire holiday weekend on baseball fields

Quick Poll: Biggest Cost Driver of Switching 3PLs?
Earlier this year, a consultant friend emailed me the following question he had received from a client: What is the true, total cost of changing

The Fax Machine: The Champ of Supply Chain Hardware
If Excel is the champ of supply chain apps, then the fax machine is the champ of supply chain hardware. While Big Data, Internet of
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