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Making it Easy to Improve

Every organization wants to improve. According to Arun Samuga of Elemica, you can look to the 'e' words for ideas on how to better your supply chain. Read more...

Risk Convergence

There's never a shortage of risk in the supply chain world. Two major types are vendor risk and operational supply chain management risk. Read more...

Improve Your Reputation

Remeber the old days, when supply chain was 'back office' type work? Well, Viktoria Sadlovska, Research Director at Reputation Institute, thinks those days are long gone. Supply chains can now be competitive differentiators and a mis-step can sully a company's reputation. Read more...

Personality in Procurement

Do you have what it takes to move ahead in Procurement? Pierre Mitchell, on the Chief Procurement Officer site, explains why he thinks your personality may have a big impact on your individual and group performance. Read more...

A History Lesson for Supply Chains

You don't often hear Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler mentioned in a supply chain article, but Jim LeTart on the Supply Chain Nation site pulls it off. He's interested in how tyranny was addressed in the past and how the current tyrant in the market, the consumer, will be 'appeased'. Read more...

Location Aware Applications on the Way

Location aware services are one of the great strides taken by technology over the past few years. Supply chain software in the TMS realm is beginning to utilize them to an ever greater extent. Read more...

Supply Chain Disruptions in 2014

The folks on the Supply Chain Brain site have been tracking supply chain disruptions for years. To me, 2014 seemed pretty calm, but they've identified several significant events that impacted suppliers worldwide. Read more...

L'Oreal's Supply Chain Leadership

I'm a big believer in using case studies of industry leaders to identify best practices. We're lucky that Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, is likewise interested. Read more...

Small Data is Big News

Big data is big news, but you know what might be even bigger? Small data. It's what'll be powering the Internet of Things (IoT). Read more...

3DP to the Rescue

A technology with the potential to disrupt at least part of the supply chain, 3D printing (3DP), is being looked at as a potential solution to end-of-life (EOL) part situations. Seems like a natural fit and is obviously an improvement over other alternatives. Read more...

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