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How Lean For IT Applies To The Supply Chain
[2009-06-15] My ongoing research has taken me squarely into Lean. Have gone through The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking (Womack/Jones) As with ERP for IT, I am by no means the first to entertain this topic. There's a Wikipedia article that, while very well written, seems a little premature and bordering on original research (no books have been written on Lean IT to my knowledge).
M&A Due Diligence For Supply Chain Management
[2009-05-28] Due diligence is an analysis of a companies activities and records as a key step in the acquisition, or potential acquisition, of a business. This review is done whether the company being bought is a small, private one or is a multi-national corporation.
New Supply Chain Tool Aims To Reduce Inventory
[2009-05-04] Supply chain management software firm, Supply Chain Consultants has introduced a new inventory management module for its Zemeter family of supply chain management software tools.
Study Reports Five Major Challenges In SCM
[2009-04-10] Whenever I promote something related to IBM, I always first disclose that I work for IBM. So consider yourself disclosed. A few weeks ago IBM released a new study based on interviews with 400 supply chain executives from the Americas, Western Europe and Asia called the Supply Chain of the Future.
Opportunity And Challenge For Design Makeover
[2009-03-27] Supply chain management is a complex responsibility. There are supply chains within supply chain. Supply chains are not linear from one customer to one supplier. They involve multiple customers and multiple suppliers each of whom has a supply chain. Compound that with presence of three different supply chains-product, information and financial.
Marketing Logistics And Supply Chain Management
[2009-03-06] When I started this blog several years ago my intent was to give it a good effort for a few months, but I never thought that I would still be doing it to this day. Besides my passion for supply chains and the hits that the blog continues to generate, I am also driven by this blogs ability to generate new interest in the supply chain profession.
Recession Provides Opportunity Supply Chain Improvements
[2009-02-13] It doesn't look like the recession is going to end anytime soon, and that means companies of all types and sizes are going to need to work harder and become more efficient than ever. Improving supply chains is one solution almost everyone should be able to embrace.
Complexity And Visibility Hampering High-Tech Supply Chains
[2009-01-30] The increasing numbers of products, suppliers, channels and geographies, along with a lack of real-time visibility, are hampering high-tech manufacturers supply chains and hurting their bottom lines, according to a new Infosys/Microsoft survey.
ToolsGroup Launches New Supply Chain Planning Solution
[2009-01-11] ToolsGroup, a global provider of demand-driven inventory optimization solutions, has introduced a new type of supply chain planning solution that incorporates probabilistic modeling across all main supply chain functions.
Logistics of Modern Day Outsourcing
[2008-12-05] The outsourcing of logistics is really nothing new, corporations have been doing it since the 1800's choosing to use the US Pony Express over their own internal resources to ship parcels. But since the days of cowboys and Indians, we've gotten more global and things often need to be delivered in hours rather than days and weeks.
Promote Supply Chain Security
[2008-11-07] For this post I'd like to share a best practice. For the past month I've been working with IBM's internal supply chain security and compliance team.
The Importance Of Forecasting In Supply Chain Management
[2008-10-21] Best-in-class companies in process industries are 1.5 times more likely than all other companies to be able to forecast based on attribute, according to a new report from Aberdeen Group.
Europe Leads In Supply Chain Advances
[2008-10-03] Europe jumped ahead of North America and Asia Pacific in reaching significant cost reductions, revenue gains and sustainability improvements through supply chain advancements, according to the 2008 Global Survey of Supply Chain Progress from CSC, Supply Chain Management Review, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and Michigan State University.
Companies Suffer Loss From Supply Chain Disruptions
[2008-09-19] Growing global operations are forcing companies to more pro-actively evaluate and address their supply chain risks.
Traceability Software Helps Reduce Recalls
[2008-08-29] A majority of food and beverage companies were involved in at least one product recall in 2007, according to a new study by AMR Research and Lawson Software.
AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25
[2008-08-01] Last month, AMR Research published its heavily touted and highly competitive Top 25 Supply Chain listing.
Cost Hinders Greening Of Supply Chains
[2008-07-11] Companies that want to "green" their supply chains are most hindered by the inability to justify the cost of doing so, according to "The Green Supply Chain Study," conducted by CSC, Manhattan Associates, IBM and Supply Chain Management Review magazine.
Traits of Supply Chain Excellence
[2008-06-06] Some companies, regardless of their industry or size, do well. They are successful with low value merchandise or with fashionable merchandise or whatever product. Other firms struggle or so it seems. The difference, when you drill down, is often how well a firm executes supply chain management.
Supply Chains Need P2P Plumbing
[2008-05-01] Supply chain management is not a term to get the blood rushing but it is a vital corporate function that describes taking raw materials from the field to the shelf.
The On-Line Solution For Demanding Customers
[2008-03-07] Where is my stuff?
End-to-end Supply Chain Services
[2008-02-01] CEVA Logistics said it has appointed Bill Aldridge as executive vice president for its newly created business unit, International Logistics Solutions.
Retail Container Traffic Falling...
[2007-12-21] As discussed previously, within this blog...we have plenty of big ships...but the market will not have the space/container demands matching the the past few years...
Looking Back on the CHaINA Awards
[2007-11-30] A few weeks ago, the China Supply Chain Council presented its CHaINA Awards for the third times to celebrate superior achievements that are enabled by supply chain management in China.
Journey to Supply Chain Excellence
[2007-10-12] Having a competitive advantage with supply chain management (SCM) no longer exists. That window of opportunity has closed.
China Leading RFID Utilization
[2007-09-28] A massive national identification card program will allow China to leap forward this year as the world's largest market for radio frequency identification devices, or RFID, by value, according to a new industry study.
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