ASP Book Reviews Business Case Studies Certification CRM Desktops Dir. Refine your supply chain and express your opinions. But I also need room for your letters. So let's touch on one wireless start-up before I turn over the floor to you. WhereNet has patented a wireless system to locate and track materials in a supply chain in real time.
Numerous refinements are possible.
For example, because a Ford employee developed a button that allows Ford's workers to call for parts and know exactly when they will be delivered, the workers refined Ford's supply chain. WhereNet has signed several service-provider partners and is bringing in seasoned executives to handle its business. Senior VP Tom Turner, who worked with John Chambers through the dark days of Wang, remarks on the insularity of some Silicon Valley executives. Unfortunately, Ford was not available to back up Turner's assertion, because the Ford executives who know WhereNet were in constant meetings. Tselentis says he coined the phrase after working at a B2B start-up whose demise he correctly predicted to within a month.