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.

http://www.scmnews.com/2009/0615.html

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.

http://www.scmnews.com/2009/0528.html

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.

http://www.scmnews.com/2009/0504.html

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.

http://www.scmnews.com/2009/0410.html

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.

http://www.scmnews.com/2009/0327.html

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.

http://www.scmnews.com/2009/0306.html

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.

http://www.scmnews.com/2009/0109.html