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US Manufacturing for May 2012

Manufacturing in the US continues to expand- that makes 34 months in a row.

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Data Security Concerns

Corporate data security is a major challenge for everyone. Two experts on the subject, Joel Brenner and Dana Gardner, talk about aspects of cyber crime and international data espionage efforts on the supply chain in this excerpt on the IT-Director.com site.

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Effects of Unpaid Invoices

eInvocing is a hot topic and is on the 'wish list' of many business for this year. It's not hard to understand why.

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A Supply Chain & Business Strategy Lesson

In the last of a series of articles on the subject, Vivek Sehgal in Supply Chain Management Review looks at the different approaches two ultra familiar retailers took to get to where they are now.

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Will Oracle Make a Move?

With all the talk about SAP's acquisition of Ariba, let's not forget there are other big tech companies out there who may like to do something similar.

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How Sourcing is Changing

The sourcing function continues to evolve. Joe Payne gives us his thoughts about how it's changing in his article on the Procurement Insights page.

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More Supply Chain Mega-Trends

Dan Gilmore gave us the initial  6 of his list of 12 megatrends for the supply chain awhile back. He's finally gotten around to completing it.

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Inventory and the Lean Supply Chain

We've read about the lean supply chain quite a bit recently. The concept of 'pull' is important to the lean approach. What creates 'pull' for the supply chain?

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Gartner's Top 25 Supply Chains

Gartner's rankings are in, and Apple comes out on top by a very wide margin. Who are the other great supply chains?

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Lean Learnings at the Waffle House

If you're not familiar with Lean and other continuous improvement methodologies, the process and jargon can seem pretty impenetrable.

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