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What Constitutes a Supply Chain Disaster
- Wednesday, 16 October 2013
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
The Approaching Supply Chain Apocalypse
- Friday, 04 October 2013
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
UN on Supply Chain Corruption
- Wednesday, 21 August 2013
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
The Supply Chain is Just a Cost of Doing Business
- Thursday, 15 August 2013
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
What's Wrong with Vendors
- Monday, 29 July 2013
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
Labeling Still a Barrier in Some Areas
- Tuesday, 23 October 2012
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- Written by Esther Shein
Changing long-term processes is never an easy thing to do but it’s especially challenging when you’re talking about how item labeling is done in Asia. Right now, for example, when the internet is down, workers take a “sneaker net” approach to getting purchase orders out: Someone plugs a USB drive into a computer, copies the information then walks down the hall and plugs it into another computer to remove the file and then brings it back to the packer, explains Chris Beukenkamp, managing director, Asia, for SPS Commerce. “We have the internet everywhere but you’re lucky if a factory has a single internet connection -- and that’s usually on a manager’s desk. It definitely won’t be on the factory floor where they’re doing packing and shipping.”
Read more...Pondering the Supply Chain Ecosystem
- Monday, 05 November 2012
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- Written by Cyndee Wehrheim
This past week I spent visiting my son in Colorado. On one of our many adventures we hiked to an area in the Rockies that was a uniquely contained ecosystem. One change to its delicate balance could cause negative impact to its carefully laid out environment.
Read more...Business Continuity Plans Must Consider Supply Chain Operations
- Thursday, 08 November 2012
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- Written by Beth Bacheldor
The recent superstorm, Sandy, and the Nor’easter that followed one week later, are continual reminders that businesses need to build redundancies and create business continuity plans for services and infrastructure. Not only do outages have immediate impact to operations, they also significantly impact supply chains. In fact, a recent study led by global multi-line insurance provider Zurich Insurance Group and conducted by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) found that the leading cause of supply chain disruption is unplanned IT or telecom outages.
Read more...What Supply Chain Masters Execute
- Monday, 10 December 2012
- Supply
- Written by Esther Shein
Supply chain “masters” are in the best position to turn rising fuel prices from an inhibitor to an opportunity for change, according to the Accenture report, Past the Tipping Point: Record oil prices require new supply chain strategies to enable future high performance. They masters understand the need to re-evaluate the various components of the supply chain.
Read more...What’s in it for the Supplier?
- Saturday, 29 September 2012
- Supply
- Written by Esther Shein
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