
Supply (205)
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
- Supply
- 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.”
Pondering the Supply Chain Ecosystem
- Monday, 05 November 2012
- Supply
- 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.
Business Continuity Plans Must Consider Supply Chain Operations
- Thursday, 08 November 2012
- Supply
- 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.
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.
What’s in it for the Supplier?
- Saturday, 29 September 2012
- Supply
- Written by Esther Shein

Sharing Data Delivers Success
- Thursday, 27 September 2012
- Supply
- Written by Esther Shein
The good news is there’s more and more product data available for suppliers and retailers. The not-so-good news is that sharing that data has become overwhelming as economic conditions continue to be a challenge and industry growth is changing the way data sharing continues to grow.
Explosive innovation
- Tuesday, 25 September 2012
- Supply
- Written by Cameron Laird
Keeping up with payment system news, even that part of it restricted to North America, is more than a full-time job. So much has happened recently, though, that it's time for a survey of recent highlights:
Measuring Supply Chain Sustainability
- Monday, 17 September 2012
- Supply
- Written by Michael Martz
One of the mantras of modern management, ‘you can’t manage it if you don’t measure it’, certainly applies to supply chain sustainability. However, sustainability is often a moving target since everyone's supply chain is different. A good way to find some commonality as a basis for understanding the term is to take a look at how businesses measure it.
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