Author Archives: Julian Blumenthal

May 01

Using the Energy of Complaining

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Julian Blumenthal

Complaining, you hear it during coffee breaks, at special events, and yes, of course, in the rest room. By nature, the supply chain/logistics affects many departments, many people, management and customers. With that many moving parts, something will be suboptimal. … Read More →

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Apr 05

Imagining Sustainability

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Julian Blumenthal

I attended the opening day keynote at the Promat convention entitled: Building Supply Chain Sustainability for Competitive Advantage: Lessons learned from leaders in innovative facility design. I will focus what caught my attention below. For other details on the speakers … Read More →

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Mar 21

Logistics Customer Service is More Than Things

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Julian Blumenthal

Customer Service is more than just about things; things such as omni-channel, data, warehouse choices and which transportation carrier to use. Supply Chain and Logistics is very people and organization centric. One can know all about the bells and whistles … Read More →

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Feb 22

Working with the Difficult Inclined

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Julian Blumenthal

One of the joys of career life is coming in contact with wonderful, competent, and caring people. In the logistics/supply chain there are plenty of those types. There also thieves, scumbags, and people who have a disagreeable personalities. Some times … Read More →

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Feb 01

SC advise for Hell and Hand Basket

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Julian Blumenthal

Perhaps some of may have noticed that the political environment is getting a bit of chaotic out there, hell and hand basket type space. Those us in Supply Change and Logistics make our living trying to organize chaos in a … Read More →

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Jan 24

When You Experience Poor Leadership

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Julian Blumenthal

My last blog was how everybody in the supply chain can and should be a leader and a good one at that. We all know the opposite happens. It sure does! Poor leadership can result from poor practices, processes and … Read More →

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Jan 10

Supply Chain Leadership Even If It Isn’t in Your Title

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Julian Blumenthal

I volunteer at a food pantry and one day I asked the people there if in their career life they had ever had a good boss. None of the people I spoke to could remember even one good boss. When … Read More →

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Dec 06

The importance of your neighbors

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Julian Blumenthal

In recent issue of Trains Magazine, there was a story about a regional railroad crew in the southeast United States. Enroute they would stop the train, feed an apple or some similar fruit to a mule who was always smart … Read More →

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Oct 24

The S&S-Sales Force and Supply Chain

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Julian Blumenthal

Sales forces want to sell. Supply Chain wants to deliver, but with understanding of the cost to the enterprise and the physical realities of warehousing and transport. The part in the last sentence after the word “but” is where the … Read More →

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Oct 10

Nuts and Bolts of Software

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Julian Blumenthal

You can call it nuts and bolts or blocking and tackling. It is easy to take a 30,000 feet view of software and all the grand things it can do. In the case of supply chain software, to enable any … Read More →

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