A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- The Role of Generative AI in Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- AI’s Impact on Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- The ‘New Normal’ is now the ‘No Normal’ in Supply Chains
- SRR—Sustainability, Resilience, Risk Management: The Latest Supply Chain Buzzwords & Investment Opportunities
- 3PLs–Investing in the Next Generation of Outsourced Supply Chain Solutions
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Category: Real Time Information
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Let's contemplate the world of supply chain optimization for a few minutes. Optimization tools underlie most of our decision-making in both supply chain planning and execution. We in supply chain management could not do what we do without the tools we use every day. But are we really getting the most out of our execution…
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Buzzword Bingo: Big Data = Collection of large and complex data sets (Photo credit: planeta) Big Data frenzy is sweeping the supply chain world. Numerous article tout the 'importance' of big data in making optimal planning, execution and investment decisions. Well, maybe… First, a few thoughts on how Big Data could be helpful. Using downstream…
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Image via Wikipedia Streetline Inc., a San Francisco-based developer of smart parking solutions, has raised $15 million in Series B funding. Fontinalis Partners and RockPort Capital Partners co-led the round, and were joined by return backer Sutter Hill Ventures. In my previous post on the company, my idea that the solution could be extended to make…
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Image via Wikipedia The NY Times Magazine featured an interesting article, titled Wasted Data, on how information collected on our buying habits could help us reduce waste. Although the article was more than a bit disjointed–it was based on a graduate student's thesis–the concept is intriguing. Getting manufacturers to take more responsibility for the eventual recycling…
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From Xconomy Seattle, "CEO Dale Keep of RoadWyze (Walla Walla, WA) regaled the audience with stories from his 36 years of working with government agencies dealing with snow, ice, and other weather conditions on roads and highways. His company, founded in 2004, places wireless sensors in roads to communicate things like air temperature, surface temperature, humidity, and pavement…
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Image via Wikipedia Streetline Networks is trying to solve the big question for drivers in cities–where is that nearby parking space? They make traffic control technology that makes it tougher to park cheaper or get away with not feeding the meter. Streamline's applications lets parking authorities identify crowded streets and raise parking-meter charges at a…
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Mobile phone bar code scanners are coming to Britain. Bar codes that can be scanned by mobile phones allowing consumers to read more about a product are coming to Britain from Japan. The QR bar codes allow users to pick up information with the swipe of a mobile phone and have rapidly gained cult status…
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A Cautionary Real-Time Case Study: Cisco Remember the inventory/production debacle at Cisco in 2001? Perhaps the story got lost in the deflating of the Internet bubble, but it is worth recounting as we look at the promised and pitfalls of using real-time data to manage supply chains. Cisco bragged in the Harvard Business Review in…
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What are some opportunities for using real-time data beyond alerts and monitoring? Real-time data is being used today by a number of innovative companies to improve supply chain performance and customer satisfaction. At Toyota, for example, when you buy a new car off a dealer’s lot, they are ready to dispatch the replacement vehicle to…
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If I Get It, Can I Use It? Perhaps the major issue for professionals seeking to use real-time data in their supply chain decision processes is how to convert real-time data into real-time information. As we noted earlier, current supply chain software applications, other than visibility, are not well equipped to manage much real-time data.…
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