As many of you know I am now living in Zurich and as one should do in a new country, I am trying to learn the local language.  To help, everyone tells me that I should get a TV with cable to watch programs in German to support the classes and DVDs I am using.

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I certainly hope not, what would I blog about? But today in the Wall Street Journal an article highlights the trend that many companies, including Oracle, Pepsi, General Motors and Boeing, are all buying their suppliers and/or partners or investing in them for one reason or another.

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Retalix, a leading supply chain software company, has announced plans to incorporate Windows 7 into it's supply chain software. The company specializes in the food industry and services distributors in over 50 countries.

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More than one-third of North American manufacturers have experienced a significant supply chain disruption in the past three months, according to a new survey by MFG.com.

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It's almost beyond cliche at this point to say that the economy has affected everyone. One industry that took a massive hit was Supply Chains. It makes sense; they're the middle man that transports goods from supplier to consumer. If consumers aren't buying, the suppliers aren't supplying and so on and so forth.

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Apple just launched a new set of web pages dedicated to proving that they have a socially responsible supply chain. While it is very open and informative, to really "account for everything" as the website declares they need to go back further then just manufacturing and logistics.

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Inventory optimization (IO) is now among the top three priorities for many supply chain organizations as they look to create increased efficiencies during the global downturn, according to a recent report from IDC Manufacturing Insights.

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Fresh back from vacation with a new supply chain story for you. As per my last post I took holiday in Tuscany, Italy. While I certainly took the chance to visit the vineyards I also squeezed in a side trip to Carrara, Italy, which as anyone in the area will tell you is world famous for it's marble.

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River Logic's Enterprise Optimizer is what is increasingly known as an "Integrated Business Planning" solution. Enterprise Optimizer is designed to manage cross-functional decisions at strategic, tactical, and policy levels considering all the elements and consequences of those decisions.

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From polluting the environment to creating sweat shops, poorly managed supply chains can tarnish the reputation of any company - not only that it makes good business sense.

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I saw ServiceBench when I presented at the Warranty Chain Management Conference and got a chance to get a more detailed presentation just recently.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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