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Shoveling Snow with a Dustpan (Takeaways from BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 Conference)

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As I prepared my keynote presentation for the BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 conference , I recalled this experience and saw it as a good metaphor for the difficulties many companies are having today responding effectively to the blizzard of supply chain management.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

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The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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This Week in Logistics News (April 24-28, 2017)

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As you read this I’ll be flying back from the JDA FOCUS 2017 conference in Las Vegas. Ryder Reports First Quarter 2017 Results. February 2017 North American Freight Numbers. I’m still letting that sink in. JD.com creates new unit for its logistics services (TechCrunch). Robinson Reports First Quarter Results.

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Interesting Supply Chain Events from Week of August 21, 2017

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See transcript from conference call here: Landstar (LSTR) Q2 Conference Call. Inventory to Sales Raio - Updated August 15, 2017 Well, that ends a pretty exciting week and hope it was profitable and engaging for all. Landstar , once again is the outlier and doing a fantastic job. More to come on this.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 2-6, 2017)

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I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). Here’s a short video I recorded in Spanish highlighting the topic of my presentation: If you plan to be at the conference, I look forward to learning and networking with you.

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The Takeaway from CSCMP Conference: The Data Problem Runs Deep

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This year’s CSCMP conference reinforced that we’re in the early days of a massive transformation. And at the conference it was clear that the data problem is still huge and everyone needs a better way to solve it. Capability to canonicalize and sequence supply chain events. The Data Problem. Cleaning it takes days.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6-10, 2017)

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I learned that fact (and many more important things) at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference in New Orleans this week. As the compliance date for the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate approaches (December 18, 2017), there are two important questions to be answered: How will it impact capacity?