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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Early customers often have strong emotional connections to start ups. After all, they bought the unproven software from a tiny company with shaky finances, sometimes putting their own careers on the line to convince senior executives that already purchased SAP or Oracle suites could not solve the same problem. They took a lot of risks…
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I am a book collector. Not a big one, but just first editions of books I particularly enjoyed reading and can reasonably afford. That does eliminate first editions of the James Bond novels, which can sell for $6,000 to $10,000 apiece in the rare book market today. If I'd only known that when I first…
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WikiSCM is the latest addition to our knowledge base in supply chain. While I am in favor of providing a clear definitions of various supply chain terms, this site falls far short. First, the site does not have definitions of the supply chain basics, like transportation management systems. I realize that individual contributors need to add their input…
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IBM acquires ILOG for $340 Million–July 28, 2008 JDA acquires i2 for $346 Million–August 11, 2008 The acquisition spree continues in the supply chain technology space as early pioneers opt to tie in with bigger partners. IBM's acquisition of ILOG is clearly focused on adding the capability to manage complex supply chain outsourcing projects…
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan is one of the best supply chain strategy books ever written. That’s a pretty strong endorsement from a guy who’s read most if not all supply chain strategy books produced in the last thirty years. It’s not your classic supply chain strategy book, but one that explores where your food…
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Where does your supply chain thinking stop? When it goes out the door of your distribution center? At the customer DC? At the store back room or shelf? Or as it goes out the door in the hands of the consumer? For the typical consumer products company, I’ll bet that it probably stops when it…
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According to PE Hub, Cambridge radio frequency identification technology (RFID) developer ThingMagic, Inc. reports it has entered into a new partnership with power tool maker DeWALT and Ford Motor Company to equip new trucks with RFID-based asset tracking systems. The partnership will equip 2009 Ford F-150 and F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks, as well as…
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Can your supply chain be affected by weather? Any shipper that has had to pay late fees to a retailer because they missed a delivery window may want to check out the newest way to hedge weather-caused transportation delays. Let’s say you have a critical air delivery due to ship to a Wal-Mart distribution center,…
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I never thought that any supply chain or marketing innovators would get a editorial in the New York Sunday Times, but it happened. The new Eagles album–Long Road out of Eden–was released in early November only in Wal-Mart. With all the angst about the long-term decline in traditional distribution channels for music–and the propensity of…
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Can eliminating left-hand turns in your delivery routes save you serious money? UPS reports that eliminating the time-consuming left-hand turn for its 95,000 delivery vehicles has reduced fuel consumption by roughly 3 million gallons per year–not to mention the saving in driver time waiting for traffic to clear. UPS is using a package flow optimization…
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