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Critical: Beer Distribution

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:58:11 -0600

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

The Secrets to Attraction Marketing Revealed

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:01:24 -0600

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

Graph Theory to the rescue

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:29:45 -0600

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

Game Changers or Business As Usual?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:01:00 -0600

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

Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back (Part 1 of 3)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:43:50 -0600

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

Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:55:18 -0600

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

Malaysian Forestry Department Studies RFID

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:12:11 -0600

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

Is the supply chain finally being recognized by the mainstream as a strategic capability of a company?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:45:39 -0600

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

Refreshing Min/Max inventory planning

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:07:31 -0600

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

Krisenbewältigung mit Herz und Verstand.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:43:19 -0600

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

Rigorous Risk Management

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:01:38 -0600

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

Kraft to Increase Purchases of Rainforest Alliance Certified Cocoa Ten-Fold by 2012

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:07:11 -0500

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

Finisterre Finds Best Path to Staying Warm and Dry is to Act Like an Otter

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:04:04 -0500

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

Samsung wins award for LCD TV leadership

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:00:18 -0500

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

Technologie d'Internet

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:34:54 -0500

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

Six Keys to a Successful Reorganization (of your Supply Chain)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:01:00 -0500

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

Supply Chain Needs to Measure Carbon Footprint

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:20:06 -0500

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

Don’t Cut CSR Spending: Reallocate to Build Your Brand

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:30:56 -0500

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

Supply chain 2015 - the blurring of operational supply chain planning and execution

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:48:27 -0500

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

Things to do to improve warehouse productivity

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:48:33 -0500

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

BSR 2009: The State of Sustainability in ‘The World’s Workshop’

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:11:23 -0500

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

SAP Event Management, EDI and Cloud Computing

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:29:30 -0500

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

Savi provides DOD with RFID supply chain tracking technologies (Military and Aerospace Electronics)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:48:08 -0500

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

A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:01:07 -0500

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

Levi Strauss Partners with Goodwill; Knows How to Pick a Good Restaurant

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:37:33 -0500

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

UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:27:35 -0500

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

EU Takes Tough Emissions Stance for Planes, Ships

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:16:02 -0500

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

Modeling varying lead times

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:14:58 -0500

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,

Modeling varying lead time

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:14:58 -0500

The Three-Pronged Core of the Modern Supply Chain

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:01:00 -0500

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