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A Buy-Side Blogger’s View (Part 1): What I Learned at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit

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Lora was kind enough to invite me to attend the global summit a few weeks ago and while I meant to do some live blogging, I was too busy taking it all in and writing it all down, and now I’m staring at 12 pages of ‘knowledge inventory’. The value of flow and moving smaller lot sizes is not lost on me here. Anyway, needless to say, it was great to be back at the Phoenician with Lora (an homage of sorts to the good old AMR days), and with a broader supply chain community. Procurement and inbound SCM is…

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The Interconnected Supply Chain

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The moment I wake every morning, data is being generated about me. By the time I stretch and take a few paces around my room, the fitness bracelet on my wrist has already documented that my sleep cycle broke at 7:23 a.m. I check my phone for the weather, and it opportunely alerts me that it will take approximately 13 minutes to drive to work at this time of day. Sure, I use applications that access my current location, such as apps for mapping directions or for finding the closest Mexican restaurant, so I know that my phone has the…

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