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Looptworks – A New Way to Think About Sustainable Clothing
Triple Pundit | December 25th 2009
Take a look at the tag of the clothes you just got for Christmas. Where were they made? Most likely, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, China or Peru. And? And with clothing manufacturing comes the scraps. The overage of a particular color fabric or button. read more
Building a Path to Sustainable Products
Triple Pundit | December 24th 2009
by Kelly Flores Making your products “sustainable” is no easy task. There are a variety of issues for product managers, designers, and engineers to consider about design, materials, packaging and transportation. In a recent study of best read more
After 28% Fuel Savings with Hybrid Vans, UPS Orders 200 More
Clean Energy Leader | December 23rd 2009
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has completed its analysis of UPS’s first generation hybrid diesel delivery vans, finding a 28 percent fuel savings. UPS has been pleased enough with the vans that it has ordered an additional 200 units, read more
Bio-Based Fuel Industry Faces Cost and Scale Challenges
Clean Energy Leader | December 23rd 2009
Bio-based fuels are not serious threats to the $250-billion petroleum industry until they can compete in terms of cost, properties and scale, according to a new report from Lux Research. In order to replace the 30 billion barrels of oil consumed ann read more
Why Best Buy Is the Electronic Recycling King
Triple Pundit | December 23rd 2009
In October, I wrote a post titled Best Buy’s Environmental Efforts. As the likely biggest collector of electronic waste in the U.S., Best Buy merits a second post. A GreenBiz.com article calls Best Buy a “pioneer when it comes to electronics take read more
Management Trainee Job at PT Multicon Indrajaya Terminal
Lowongan Kerja Jambi | December 22nd 2009 by Yudhistira
PT Multigroup Logistics Company, a leading multinational logistics company is currently inviting outstanding individuals who have strong leadership quality to be part of our team in: Management Trainee YOU will be TRAINED, DEVELOPED intensively and b read more
Risk-Based Due Diligence for Supply Chains
Information Security Resources | December 21st 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Thomas R. Fox, Attorney at Tom Fox Law Quick, as the Compliance Professional within your organization, which department or group of your company spends the most money annually? Did Supply Chain immediately come to mind? Probably not. Now just as q read more
Did You Send Your Suppliers a Holiday Card?
All About B2B | December 19th 2009
There are six days until Christmas and my Outlook inbox is beginning to fill up with electronic holiday cards from vendors. About 50% of the cards I received this year are from companies I don’t even know. I guess they are trying to sell me mar read more
The Most Often Overlooked Risk in Your Energy Supply Chain?
Sourcing Innovation | December 19th 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
Is it the grid and the possibility of another great blackout (due to a lack of breakers)? Is it the unpredictable terrorist act that could blow up a pipeline in North America (which includes friendly Canada)? No, it's Sciurus Carolinensis! read more
SAAB no more…
Jan Husdal | December 18th 2009 by Jan Husdal
What do you when your major customer goes bust? How do you cope with finding a new business partner? How do you react when a major competitor is no more? I don’t know, but I guess many businesses catering to SAAB in Trollhättan in Sweden will read more
Lack of Process Automation Causes elevated Supply Chain Risk
log4scm : All about Logistics & SCM | December 18th 2009 by log4scm
E2open, a lbusiness-to-business research organization, announced the results of a Supply Chain Benchmark survey focused on trends in managing supply chain risks. Survey findings show that while more than half of respondents have in excess of 500 comp read more
Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks
Jan Husdal | December 16th 2009 by Jan Husdal
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain, and today’s article introduces a new methodology for integrating risk management procedures into planning and design of maritime transportation networks. Risk Management in Maritime Tr read more
Asset-Oriented Supply Chains Need Supply Chain Network Optimizati…
Sourcing Innovation | December 16th 2009 by Michael Lamoureux
I couldn't agree more with this recent headline from Supply Chain News that notes that Asset-Oriented Supply Chains Need Supply Chain Network Optimization More Than Ever because, like just about every other type of supply chains, they do. This is be read more
Turning CO2 into Plastic Packaging
Clean Energy Leader | December 15th 2009
A new technology from Novomer promises to use carbon dioxide as a feedstock for producing packaging and coating applications. Novomer says the the process uses half as much energy as traditional plastics manufacturing, reports Plastics Today. Novomer read more
VACANCY FOR HEAD, SUPPLY CHAIN AVAILABLE IN NAIJA, TUESDAY 15 DEC…
NIGERIA TOP JOBS and CAREERS BLOG WEBSITE | December 15th 2009 by Prince
Head, Supply Chain (Ref: DDG-R4D/HSC/09/09) Background: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the position of Head, Supply Chain IITA is an international nonprofit research-for-development (R4D) organizat read more
Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains
Jan Husdal | December 14th 2009 by Jan Husdal
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain. Today’s article reflects on security in maritime supply chains: Assurance of security in maritime supply chains: Conceptual issues of vulnerability and crisis management by Paul Ba read more
Risks in maritime supply chains
Jan Husdal | December 14th 2009 by Jan Husdal
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain. Globalization and international trade is heavily reliant on safe and open waterways. Sea transport constitutes the major part of almost every supply chain, and is thus a major contribu read more
What Google Could Do for the Supply Chain
All About B2B | December 13th 2009
Last week I finally was able to get my 1 year old daughter vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. There have been widespread availability issues with the vaccine throughout the US. When a batch of supply is delivered there is a mad frenzy of pare read more
How Leading Companies are Pioneering Innovation in Carbon, Water…
The Green Economy Post | December 13th 2009 by Tracey de Morsella
A summary of the second webinar in the Sustainable Brands Boot Camp series, Innovation Opportunities in Response to Today’s Environmental Hot Buttons: Climate Change, Water & Waste. The webinar was led by Will Sarni, CEO and founder of Domani read more
Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains
Jan Husdal | December 13th 2009 by Jan Husdal
Operational research has become one of the most indispensable tools in business. Modelling and analysis play a major role in abstract representation of business systems and data analysis and, subsequently, in the generation of relevant information fo read more
Tranfusing Life: Automatic Identification and Blood Banking
LEUKEMIA AND ANEMIA | December 12th 2009 by Donna
Overview Blood. It’s the foundation of all our lives. And when we or a family member need blood and blood products, whether it be due to an accident, surgery, or an ongoing medical condition, we must make a “leap of faith” that we a read more
Transfusing Life: Automatic Identification and Blood Banking
Vision | December 12th 2009 by Donna
Overview Blood. It’s the foundation of all our lives. And when we or a family member need blood and blood products, whether it be due to an accident, surgery, or an ongoing medical condition, we must make a “leap of faith” that we a read more
Cap-and-Trade for Seafood Industry May be Next
Clean Energy Leader | December 11th 2009
The Obama Administration has proposed a cap-and-trade style system that would extend to federally covered fisheries, the New York Times reports. The so-called “catch shares” proposal from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio read more
Why Amazon.com has the Best Demand Forecasting Data
All About B2B | December 10th 2009
In my last post I discussed one of the key disadvantages of demand forecasting techniques used in today’s supply chain. The demand signals being analyzed by many companies are Point-Of-Sale transactions from yesterday’s or last week’s consume read more
Trace + Track
AainaA | December 10th 2009 by Support Team
Asset management cases differ in an important respect from supply chain management. The important difference is the closed circulation in asset management, and the flow-through in supply chain management. This is a difference that defines two broad read more
Apple Tablet Could Kill The Kindle
Kindle Sony Nook | December 10th 2009
Checks within Apple’s supply chain have led to a new round of tablet-related rumors from one analyst, who believes the device will launch in March or April of 2010 with a 10.1-inch LCD screen. Yair Reiner, analyst with Oppenheimer, revealed his read more
Business NGO Working Group: Building the Market for Safer Produc…
Triple Pundit | December 10th 2009
I have been a big proponent of cross-sector dialogue for years and believe that when businesses, NGOs and governmental agencies can work together, more innovative and creative solutions can emerge. My pet peeve with such dialogues is that they ofte read more
Beyond POS – Looking Forward, Not Backwards for Demand Forecast…
All About B2B | December 9th 2009
In my last post, the Most Important Day of the Year for B2B e-Commerce, I discussed how the first full week of December is the time that publishers of movies, music and video games typically reserve for the launches of their best new titles. And su read more
Data warehousing is an outsourcing option
Niyamath Parveez | December 9th 2009 by Niyamath Parveez
A warehouse is extremely important for many companies and is the backbone of a business for many firms. If the company provides stock and supplies to consumers, there is a need to store them somewhere. Depending on the make-up and build of the compan read more
Rumor Has It: Apple Tablet Due in March or April, Says Analyst
home address scheme depletion google | December 9th 2009 by karminasip
Source: Piper Jaffray Apple is all set to begin production of a 10.1-inch LCD tablet starting in February 2010, according to a recent analyst note by Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner. Following that, the device should then go on sale in March or April read more
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