Recently added articles from Supply Chain Management Review:
Relief for China's quality headaches: when sourcing from China, don't assume that quality issues will take care of themselves. You need to take a proactive stance in setting expectations and managing the process.(GLOBAL LINkS)
Nov 01, 2009; ... China's abundant and low-wage labor supply of more 800 million workers has allowed the country to become the world's factory base. Sourcing in China has become one of the most effective practices for manufacturers around the world to increase profit margin and stay competitive by cutting ...
Supplier collaboration: are you deriving value from the relationship? To drive value in supplier relationships, you need a foundation of collaborative practices.(TEChNOLOGY)
Nov 01, 2009; ... While traditional supply chain processes focus on efficient transactions, value chain networks are built on effective relationships. This difference is not trivial, and challenges deep-seated traditional supply chain paradigms. We believe that the difference has shaped leaders and laggards ...
The awakener: Charles L. "Chuck" Taylor.(PROFILES in LEADERSHIP)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Chuck Taylor wants supply chain managers to wake up. He wants them to see that abundant oil is a thing of the past. He aims to convince them to reshape their supply chains to deal with escalating oil costs in future. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. Taylor tells ...
Taming the change tiger.(IN THIS iSSUE)
Nov 01, 2009; ... There were pros and cons to attending a Jesuit-run college in the 1960s. The cons had mainly to do with restrictions on your partying and socialization ... but that's a subject for another day. On the pro side of the equation, however, the Jesuits introduced you to a wide range ...
Is it possible to have predictive metrics? Metrics may be concerned with history, not the future. But they can be used to predict trends and spot problems before they happen.(InSIGHTS)
Nov 01, 2009; ... When a former MIT graduate student, Linda Haydamous, asked if I wanted be her thesis advisor for a company-sponsored MIT Masters' thesis tided "Predictive Metrics for Supply Chains," I quickly said, "sure, I'm always game and interested because the sponsor is an important, high-profile ...