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Bill's Building Blocks - A Sad State-Of-Affairs - September 2022
Bill’s Building Blocks - September 2022
A Sad State-Of-Affairs
My son is an architect. In a recent conversation he expressed his dismay with the sad state-of-affairs in our supply chains. “Dad, it’s been two years already. I can control specifying the supplier for a piece of equi...
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Bill's Building Blocks - After the Move - August 2022
Bill’s Building Blocks
After The Move
When the box count approached 180 boxes, the movers decided it was time for a second truck and assigned a fifth person to the move. Had a few more supply chain books than expected! Fortunately, the cost of the move was based on time rather than weight or...
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The Perils of Many Moving Parts - July 2022
Bill’s Building BlocksThe Perils of Many Moving Parts
When there are many moving parts, success depends on direct communications within a limited number of parties. For example, I was deep into the process of downsizing and moving. I needed to make a switch between homeowner’s insurance...
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Bill's Building Blocks - Moving Inventory - June 2022
Bill’s Building Blocks - June 2022Moving Inventory
When StarTrak Information Technologies was purchased by Orbcomm, I had to move my Morris Plains office 26 miles north on Route 287 and east on Route 80 to Rochelle Park. The StarTrak physical space consisted of offices for marketing, finance,...
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Fitting the New Normal - May 2022
Bill’s Building Blocks - May 2022
Fitting the New Normal
After fifty years of collecting books, magazines, and papers I have been revising my print library to fit it into newly renovated space. There are several central questions to this work. From a “demand” perspective: Which t...
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