A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- PE Buyout Outlook for 2026–Same Old, Same Old?
- 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
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Category: Supply Chain Innovators
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Image via Wikipedia Whole Foods announced this week that it would be recycling wine corks via Cork ReHarvest in all its 292 stores in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. In a previous Blog, I reported that Whole Foods was doing a pilot program with ReCork but that evidently that relationship faltered. Cork ReHarvest…
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It usually takes about a decade to determine if a new business model will be successful in supply chain. In the late 1990's, the rush to develop on-line buyer/seller networks in every industry was the new, new thing in supply chain. Very few succeeded. One of them is Elemica. Founded in 1999 by 22 leading chemical…
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Image via CrunchBase Waze offers driving directions based on crowd-sourced data. Unlike expensive alternatives, Waze is free and likely more reliable for many regions. I have traffic reports integrated with GPS-driven maps in my new car and it is far from correct, based on a number of recent trips to New York City. Trust me, you do not feel…
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Image via Wikipedia Many of you have seen the movie or read the book, The Perfect Storm (featuring, BTW, a Maine lobster woman, Linda Greenlaw). An economic "perfect storm" is what has been happening to the lobstering industry in Maine over the last decade. Loss of working waterfront (only 20 miles exist among the thousands of miles of Maine seacoast),…
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Image via CrunchBase No, I don't really Twitter. A few tweets a month. Perhaps more someday when I figure out what I want to say. I tend to be a late adopter of social networking unless it involves my family. But Twitter for business got me thinking about whether this phenomena will translate, like IM, cell phones…
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Three years ago, I wrote a Blog on Dust Networks and the idea that one could know where their product was at all times using motes technology. Image by binuxvia Flickr Motes are still very much around and under development in a variety of industry settings, although a Google search on the subject yields mostly…
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A new investment fund has been launched, aimed at helping US exporters with weak credit (read: auto companies) export products to lucrative markets. Delphi Trade, founded by Craig Allen and other export finance veterans, opened for business in late September. In the longer term, the fund will finance exports in developing markets, but in the…
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Over ten years ago, Frank Britt, Donovan Favre and myself first published The 7 Principles of Supply Chain Management. The article has remained popular over the years, mostly because many companies still have problems adjusting their supply chains to changing market conditions. Steve Banker, supply chain analyst at the ARC Advisory Group, recently published an…
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Image by H Robertson Photography via Flickr About a year ago, I posted on the ReCORK/Whole Foods partnership to recycle used corks from wine bottles. Now we know what is going to happen to some of these corks. ReCORK announced on 5 October that they are partnering with SOLE Footwear of Canada to reclaim and…
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Image via CrunchBase Designer clothing and accessories move through some of the most complex and expensive (read: not so green, either) sales and supply chain channels in the world. Made in Asia or other third-world countries, shipped to European, Asian or North American distribution facilities and then sold through in-store or stand-alone boutiques, fashion products…
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