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Editorial carelessness?
Jan Husdal | November 20th 2009 by Jan Husdal
If Friday postings are meant to be more casual postings and personal rants, this post most certainly falls into that category. Yesterday I sat down to prepare a review of this book, Managing Risks in Supply Chains: How to Build Reliable Collaboration read more
Cost of NOT Using Modern Supply Chain Systems: 6.8 Billion
Sourcing Innovation | November 18th 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
A recent article over on CNN Money that noted that the store theft cost to your family, largely due to a 9% jump in retail theft over the past year, is $435 -- as shoplifting, employee theft, and supply chain fraud cost retailers $42.2 Billion betwe read more
Press Releases – TAKE Supply Chain Enhances Xtended Process Con…
ERPSCOUT Blog | November 18th 2009 by Ernst Pellka
18, 2009 – TAKE Supply Chain (formerly ClearOrbit), innovator of software solutions to power demand-driven value networks, today released Xtended Process Control (X.PC) 5.7d, an upgrade to the... Dies ist nur ein Text-Auszug. Besuchen Sie ERPSCOUT read more
Mitigating supply chain disruptions is easy
Jan Husdal | November 17th 2009 by Jan Husdal
How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorrow and while looking for some YouTube videos on supply chain risk to spice up my 3-hour presentation, I came across a short snippet featuring Christoph read more
Coca-Cola Rolls Out Plant-Based Recyclable Bottles
Triple Pundit | November 16th 2009
Seemingly every day a different company announces a new greening initiative, so when Coca-Cola said this morning that it has begun distributing plastic bottles of Coke and other beverages made with up to 30% plant-based material, it might have seemed read more
Gen 2 RFID reader based on Alien ALR-9800 (Kansas City Star)
RFID News | November 15th 2009
RFID News writes… Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) recommends this robust, easy-to-use ultra-high frequency (UHF) Gen2 RFID reader based on the successful Alien ALR-9800. The RFID reader features enhanced interference rejection read more
Supply, Demand, and … “Miscellanous” Risk?
Jan Husdal | November 15th 2009 by Jan Husdal
I’ve said so before, sometimes new articles are found in new and unlikely places. The other day I was proofreading the paper of a colleague and something caught my attention in her reference list. A brand new article, just out: Managing disrupt read more
Ethical farming III — stuffed and starved
Accidental Academic | November 14th 2009 by Azad Essa
I decided to write another blog on the topic to further clarify my position on a few issues and to adopt a more conciliatory tone. Too many people are worried about being wrong, they say nothing or refuse to change their position no matter how untena read more
NPA Welcomes Timely Reminder On Supply Chain Obligations
Zamp BioTopics | November 14th 2009 by Zamp
Following a series of constructive discussions, representatives of manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacies and other stakeholders have released guidance on Medicines Shortages and Supply Chain Obligations. The pharmaceutical supply chain has historica read more
Greenwashing isn’t just for marketers, it’s going operational
Spatially Relevant | November 13th 2009 by Jon Gatrell
The Future of Green Business Strategy View more presentations from futurethink. read more
The Box is back!
Jan Husdal | November 13th 2009 by Jan Husdal
Finally, the BBC Box has returned home, as I was made aware of from a post on @risk the other day. I had near forgotten about this project. A year ago I made a post on the BBC project “The Box”, where BBC News is following a shipping cont read more
Sustainable Minds Release 1.0: Greener Products from the Start
Triple Pundit | November 13th 2009
Consumers increasingly want the ability to make informed decisions through a better understanding of the human health and environmental impacts of products, processes and activities. Though many products claim to be “green,” the inputs an read more
Dick Locke on "Training Supply Management Personnel on Quali…
Sourcing Innovation | November 13th 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
Well, I'm glad the Doc is publishing his material on cultural differences. I've promised a blog entry on international topics every two weeks, but I've been suffering from blogger's block. I'm tired of debating whether China is manipulating currency read more
New Automotive Council to Drive Forward Future Strategy of UK Car…
Net News Publisher | November 12th 2009 by Terry
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced that the Government is setting up a new Automotive Council to address the long term strategic challenges facing the UK car industry. Through areas such as innovation and high-skilled job creation, the a read more
The Kinaxis Blog
Jan Husdal | November 11th 2009 by Jan Husdal
I said in my post on Bob Ferrari’s blog Supply Chain Matters that I was going to resurrect my previous habit of presenting and reviewing supply chain risk blogs. A promise is a promise, so here is a high-quality blog for you, the Kinaxis Blog, read more
RFiDJ: the coaster-controlled HTPC switches playlists while you s…
RFID News | November 11th 2009
RFID News writes… You know, RFID hasn’t done much for itself in the consumer market. To most average Joes and Janes, the tech is really only around for use in complex supply chains and warehouses that they’d rather block from their read more
RFiDJ: the coaster-controlled HTPC switches playlists while you s…
RFID News | November 11th 2009
RFID News writes… You know, RFID hasn’t done much for itself in the consumer market. To most average Joes and Janes, the tech is really only around for use in complex supply chains and warehouses that they’d rather block from their read more
One out of Eight Organizations Get It. What Do We Do About The O…
Sourcing Innovation | November 11th 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
According to AMR's latest research, summarized in this piece on driving supply chain transformation through the Chief Supply Chain Officer, only one out of eight organizations have a CSCO, CPO, or equivalent that reports directly to the CEO. T read more
What Should You Get Ready For Whilst Your Internet Site Is Being…
An Arbitrage CPA, PPC Training Blog | November 11th 2009 by Ricardo Weatherly
If you have made the decision to use the services of a Search Engine Optimization Company you have most probably done this with a view to increasing your internet trade. So it would seem apparent that you need to prepare your organisation for an incr read more
Supply Chain Service Provider Links
3PL Manager | November 11th 2009 by Scott Leydin
The following list is a sample of the vast array of Supply Chain Service Providers currently operating in Australia 1st Fleet – www.1stfleet.com.au Adelaide Warehouse And Distribution Service – www.awds.com.au Allied Express Transpo read more
A Day in The Life of a Chief Sustainability Officer
The Green Economy Post | November 10th 2009 by Tracey de Morsella
The following is an account of one day on the job with Kathrin Winkler. She is Sr. Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corporation, where she has a history of taking on entirely new roles in which she has to fill in the interstices bet read more
Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management
Jan Husdal | November 8th 2009 by Jan Husdal
I’ve searched and scoured numerous academic journals in order to find literature I can use for this blog. Sometimes my readers help me and suggest articles I am not yet aware of, and sometimes I stumble upon them myself, accidentally. Today I s read more
Critical: Beer Distribution
Jan Husdal | November 6th 2009 by Jan Husdal
I’m not in the habit of making Friday a day for funny blog posts, but today’s article highlights a very interesting issue: Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a supply chain distribution…in the UK. You coul read more
The Secrets to Attraction Marketing Revealed
Make Money Online Using AutoPilot Income Secrets! | November 5th 2009 by gary cortez
Attraction Marketing is absolute magic for your Network Marketing business and I am going to show you why! What would it be like to have your phone ringing continuously? Tens of people will be calling you asking you how to succeed in Network Marketin read more
Graph Theory to the rescue
Jan Husdal | November 4th 2009 by Jan Husdal
Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? It’s probably 10 years ago since last time I looked at Graph Theory. That was when I was writing my thesis for my MSc in GIS on Network Analysis in Raster GIS, and while I know that Graph Theory has man read more
Game Changers or Business As Usual?
Sourcing Innovation | November 3rd 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
Supply Chain Digest recently reviewed Kate Vitadek & J. Paul Dittman's full report on Supply Chain Game Changers: A Practitioner's Guide for Driving Competitive Advantage within Your Supply Chain. After reviewing the top ten list, I'm not sure i read more
Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back (Part 1 of 3)
The Green Economy Post | November 3rd 2009 by Tracey de Morsella
There is a serious lack of trust among consumers these days. Citizens of every country are eying large national and multi-national corporations with a narrowed, suspicious gaze. Questions are being asked. Answers demanded. With taxpayers around the w read more
Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks
Jan Husdal | November 3rd 2009 by Jan Husdal
A supply chain as a virtual enterprise network. That is the underlying reasoning in the 2009 paper How to improve supply chain flexibility using strategic supply chain networks by Herwig Winkler. Virtual Enterprise Networks do not play a major role i read more
Malaysian Forestry Department Studies RFID
RFID News | November 2nd 2009
Seeking a system to help it satisfy EU regulations, the government agency recently completed a project using EPC Gen 2 tags to track the movement of logs through the supply chain. Source Tags: EPC, RF, RFID, RFID Government, supply chain, Tags, Tego read more
Is the supply chain finally being recognized by the mainstream as…
Kinaxis on RapidResponse | November 2nd 2009
Supply chains are getting good business press lately. On a daily basis, I come across quotes like the one in a recent BusinessWeek article stating, “The ones [companies] that manage supply chains best will come out ahead as the recession ease read more
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