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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
Refreshing Min/Max inventory planning
Forecasting for Business - Lokad | November 2nd 2009 by Joannes Vermorel
Min/Max inventory planning has been available for decades. Yet, some people argue that Min/Max drive higher costs and that it should be replaced with other methods Before jumping on conclusions, let’s try to clarify a bit the situation first. Fo read more
Krisenbewältigung mit Herz und Verstand.
Supply Chain Management | November 2nd 2009 by Reinald Wolff
Vor einiger Zeit haben wir, gemeinsam mit einem Partnerunternehmen (www.mahocon.de), zu einem Workshop „Was kommt nach der Kurzarbeit?“ eingeladen. Wir näherten uns dem Thema von zwei Polen: dem Blick auf die Menschen und die Organisation, und d read more
Rigorous Risk Management
Jan Husdal | November 1st 2009 by Jan Husdal
As a global management consulting firm, A.T. Kearney is focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda concerns, and leading startegists at AT Kearney often have articles appearing in Supply Chain Mangement Review (SCMR). Today I will take a close read more
Kraft to Increase Purchases of Rainforest Alliance Certified Coco…
Green Rebates and Incentives | October 30th 2009
Kraft Foods vowed to increase the amount of Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa beans ten-fold to 30,000 tons by late 2012, to be used in two premium chocolate brands sold in the European and North American markets. Read the whole story on:h read more
Finisterre Finds Best Path to Staying Warm and Dry is to Act Like…
Triple Pundit | October 30th 2009
On any given day, you’re likely to find a small team of product designers, material developers and scrappy marketers holed up in a converted mine building in the town of St. Agnes on the North Cornwall coast—unless, of course, the surf is goo read more
Samsung wins award for LCD TV leadership
Saudi Arabia News and Updates | October 29th 2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Based on its recent analysis of the LCD TV market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Samsung Electronics with the 2009 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership of the Year, for its intensive efforts in mai read more
Technologie d'Internet
Amoura Rose: Live beautifully. Think elegantly. | October 29th 2009 by Amoura Rose
Our company is more focused on growing into the online trading exchange and B2B marketplace sector rather than depending on traditional supply chains and logistics solutions. Emma is our to-go girl for any networking support, programming issues, user read more
Six Keys to a Successful Reorganization (of your Supply Chain)
Sourcing Innovation | October 27th 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
This fall, Strategy + Business, with the help of Booz & Co., got Inside the Kraft Foods Transformation and talked with level top leaders about their three-year turnaround and their campaign to reorganize for growth. It was a good article, but the read more
Supply Chain Needs to Measure Carbon Footprint
Clean Energy Leader | October 27th 2009
Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer for SAP, discusses how companies in the business services sector can exploit developing market opportunities by helping customers measure and trim the carbon footprint. Because small and large companies are i read more
Don’t Cut CSR Spending: Reallocate to Build Your Brand
The Green Economy Post | October 27th 2009 by Tracey de Morsella
As consumer expectations rise and trust in corporations decline, the need for ethical business practices is greater than ever. Yet in a recession, companies seeking to cut costs will likely postpone important CSR initiatives or cut spending in favor read more
Supply chain 2015 - the blurring of operational supply chain plan…
Kinaxis on RapidResponse | October 27th 2009
Dan Gilmour of Supply Chain Digest in his newsletter for Oct 22, 2009 published a list of “things” that will change in supply chains by 2015. There were a number of things that Dan identified that really boil down to the blurring of o read more
Things to do to improve warehouse productivity
Lean Sigma Supply Chain | October 26th 2009 by Lawrence Loucka
Business may be slow now but before you know it you’ll be jammed again. Want to get more done with the folks you have? Things to consider: Keep the lifts in good repair Batteries getting old? Stagger shift starts – replenish forward p read more
BSR 2009: The State of Sustainability in ‘The World’s Worksho…
Green Rebates and Incentives | October 26th 2009
One session at this year’s Business for Social Responsibility conference focused on how sustainability initiatives are taking root in China; the head of BSR’s China operations sat down for an interview to explain how the country is succe read more
SAP Event Management, EDI and Cloud Computing
EDI, B2B, Cloud Computing and Business Process Automation | October 26th 2009 by Kevin Benedict
SAP Event Management (SAP EM) is a powerful solution that I believe will be increasingly popular as companies continue the trend of globalization and employing extended multi-enterprise supply chains and contract manufacturers. Here is a brief descri read more
Savi provides DOD with RFID supply chain tracking technologies (M…
RFID News | October 26th 2009
RFID News writes… MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif ? 26 Oct. 2009. Savi, a Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] company, won orders totaling .6 million for standards-based active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking technologies and accompanying services read more
A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility
Jan Husdal | October 25th 2009 by Jan Husdal
What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three authors, published the same year, in two different journals, with almost the same title? A conceptual model of supply chain flexibility and Supply Chain Flexibility: Building a New read more
Levi Strauss Partners with Goodwill; Knows How to Pick a Good Res…
Triple Pundit | October 22nd 2009
Ok, ok, I admit it. I’m a cheap date. Levi Strauss invited me and some other writers to an intimate dinner at Fish and Farm last night to talk about their new partnership with Goodwill. We had a wonderful and real conversation about the lifecyc read more
UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
Clean Energy Leader | October 22nd 2009
Using trucks where the engine has no direct physical link to the wheels, UPS is testing a new hydraulic hybrid system for some of its trucks. The trucks use a Freightliner custom chassis and hydraulic hybrid system from Parker Hannifin Corp. Financin read more
EU Takes Tough Emissions Stance for Planes, Ships
Clean Energy Leader | October 22nd 2009
The European Union has adopted a proposal to curb airline’s emissions 10 percent by 2020, and that of ships by 20 percent by 2020. The move comes as environment ministers of EU nations wrangle over how deeply to cut emissions overall. Instead o read more
Modeling varying lead times
Forecasting for Business - Lokad | October 21st 2009 by Joannes Vermorel
Yesterday, we discussed why lead times wer varying in the first place. Let's go further and see how varying lead times impact safety stock calculations. Let's start with qualitative insights of a lead time distribution. For the sake of simplicity, read more
Modeling varying lead time
Forecasting for Business - Lokad | October 21st 2009 by Joannes Vermorel
Yesterday, we discussed why lead times wer varying in the first place. Let's go further and see how varying lead times impact safety stock calculations. Let's start with qualitative insights of a lead time distribution. For the sake of simplicity, read more
The Three-Pronged Core of the Modern Supply Chain
Sourcing Innovation | October 20th 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
A recent article over on Supply Chain Digest purported to tackle supply chain at the core. I thought it would be about the core of the supply chain, but instead it was about how the supply chain is now the core of most companies. For example, GM ju read more
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