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Soup of Information?
Recipe Includes a Flocculating Agent We are in an age of information overload. Whether it is someone wittering away on Facebook, or facing the inevitable chatter on Twitter, we have too much of it....
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Stop Being a Hamster
Learn to Focus Sometimes you just feel like a hamster in a wheel spinning round and around, doing the same thing day-in and day-out. You need a little shake-up now and then to make you stop and focus....
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Pioneers Still Welcome I was reading the Daily Telegraph newspaper today (for my younger readers, the newspaper is something that us oldies use to swat flies and line cat litter trays). As usual I...
View ArticleSupply Chain Visibility for Christmas
The Magic of the Santa Tracker System I know that sometimes it can be deemed too early to introduce your children to some concepts, but I have been discussing shipment visibility with my son for many...
View ArticleSeries: Trends I See In 2014 – #1 Brands
Elemica Solution Architect’s Insight Into The New Year As is de rigueur at this time of year it is the moment to muse on what will be the trends of 2014. I believe we will still be living in the fall...
View ArticleBatteries Not Included
TMS Without A Network The holiday season is over. As a parent, the worst thing that you can get is the ‘Batteries not Included’ sign on the box. This for me, from a logistics management perspective, is...
View ArticleSeries: Trends I See in 2014 – #2 Data Quality
Elemica Solution Architect’s Insight Into The New Year I want to make it clear, I fully realize the top things a CIO will be considering for 2014 are similar to 2013. It will be Cloud,...
View ArticleSeries: Trends I See in 2014 – #3 EDI Evolves
Elemica Solution Architect’s Insight Into The New Year This is the third of my triptych relating to ‘Trends in 2014’. In my first one I discussed ‘Brands’. My second, ‘Data Quality’. In my third I am...
View ArticleThe Return of the Forgotten Process Step
The Certificate of Analysis One of the nice things about being a Solution Architect across the process industry is when you see patterns emerge in what can seem like two different ends of the...
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Chemicals Sector is growing
…and so are the projects I was looking at the latest VCI information and they painted a very positive picture for the German Chemical Industry. “Business was strong with industrial customers in Germany...
View ArticleInbound Logistics is this Year’s Colour
It is Nice to be Ahead of a Trend I don’t claim to be Steve Job, but being able to talk to companies knowing you have something that is ahead of the market is refreshing. What do we … Continue Reading →
View ArticleChemical Companies – 86% is Your New Target
Channel Your Inner Colin Firth As an Englishman, one tries to channel your inner Colin Firth when you are working in the USA. For some reason there is a belief that an English accent ups our IQ level...
View ArticleLoving Supply Chain Challenges Makes Me Think I Need to Get a Life
Who is more attractive? So who is more attractive Natalie Portman, or Scarlet Johansson? Or maybe you think that it is Diana Rigg or Sophia Loren? How can you say one is better than another. This is...
View ArticleEverybody Is Out Of Step Except For Me
Patently This Cannot Be Correct Anyone who has spent any time with me knows that I went to a British, all male, naval boarding school. My wife claims that the trauma of it explains my love of musical …...
View ArticleGet Out There and Shake Your Moneymaker
$30M of IT Infrastructure Built But Underused As the great blues performer Elmore James stated, you have to shake your money maker. Or to be precise, in our context, shake your money saver. On a recent...
View ArticleResurging Road Logistics in 2012
Road Transport Execution There is a saying in London, that you seem to wait for ever for a bus and then three come along at the same time. It is feeling a bit like that in our Logistics … Continue...
View ArticleEasy as ABC
Ensuring Success with Supply Chain Programmes Obviously as a seasoned professional I get constantly stopped in the street by people asking me the secret of my success. I tell them it is as easy as...
View ArticleSupply Chain Operating Network for the Ages
How Elemica could have changed European history … Anyone who starts a blog with the phrase “as I was reading War and Peace” deserves a collective shout of “look who is being pretentious!” from their...
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