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: Supply Chain Strategy
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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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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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Image via Wikipedia Hey, we are not speaking about two years ago when Amazon ran out of Kindles. E Books have been a big success for Amazon for a long time, in spite of the fact that only 1% of the population uses it. That's still a lot of sales. And now Sony and Barnes…
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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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Warren Buffett has made a huge bet on global economic growth by purchasing the remaining stock he does not own in the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) for $26 billion. BNSF, the nation's second-largest railroad, is the biggest hauler of food products for export such as corn, and coal for electricity, making it a key…
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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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Image via Wikipedia Layer Saver is a collapsible plastic pallet system that allows you to more fully utilize cube in a vehicle. According to the manufacturer, Layer Saver™ is a 2-layered pallet shipping vessel made to withstand more weight than conventional wood or plastic pallets. Its unique design allows for the first tier to hold…
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Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr According to VentureBeat, Zoom Systems, the San Francisco-based provider of luxury-good vending machines, just brought in $20 million in fifth-round funding to increase its market presence in the U.S. and Japan. You may have already spotted its machines (termed “automated retail stores”) in airports and shopping malls. By and…
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