Supply & Demand Chain Executive back issues from October 2008:
Corporate Profile
Oct 01, 2008; ... JVKellyGroup, Inc. is a leading professional services firm that specializes in developing and implementing innovative spend management solutions. Since 2002, JVKellyGroup has been working with the world's leading organizations to deliver high-impact engagements to drive down clients' ...
The ROI on Skills
Oct 01, 2008; ... Earlier this year the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization focused on increasing the United States' economic competitiveness in the global market, issued a report called "Thrive: The Skills Imperative," which called for a national skills strategy to ensure ...
Top Transportation Concerns: Infrastructure, Labor, Capacity
Oct 01, 2008; ... Hundreds of transportation and supply chain management executives attended the many sessions during the transportation track at the annual conference of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals in Denver, Colo., in early October. NASSTRAC, the National Shipper's Strategic ...
Supplier Diversity Programs: Tap into Partnerships for a Competitive Advantage
Oct 01, 2008; ... Supplier diversity programs are more than socially responsible - they're also good for business. They help improve the way a company serves its markets, and they represent significant revenue opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. Supply & Demand Chain Executive recently sat down with ...
Orchestrating the Planning Process
Oct 01, 2008; ... Cypress Semiconductor adopts a job scheduling tool to manage its daily production planning process Cypress Semiconductor is no stranger to complexity. The company, based in San Jose, Calif, in the heart of Silicon Valley, manufactures more than 400 different integrated circuit products, ...
The Evolution of Supply Chain Education
Oct 01, 2008; ... Academia reacts to today's complex global supply chain in developing vibrant courses with real-life urgency As industries face a dearth of skilled workers to fill diverse positions along the extensive supply chain, they look with hope to collaborating with educational institutions so ...
2008 Green Supply Chain Awards
Oct 01, 2008; ... Recognizing companies bringing Sustainability to the Supply Chain Green and "sustainability" have become new watchwords for the supply chain. Whether or not you believe that green supply chain goals are practical or attainable, and regardless of your feelings on topics like global ...
Avoiding the Big Bang Backlash of MDM Implementations
Oct 01, 2008; ... An evolutionary approach to deploying master data management While master data management (MDM) may be a newer term to some IT departments, there is no disputing the value of better managing shared master data between departments, business functions and applications. New MDM tools ...
Extreme Makeover
Oct 01, 2008; ... From mid-level purchasing executive to strategic business partner For years, chief supply chain officers have been urged to become strategic partners to their CEOs, wield the supply chain as a potent competitive weapon and join the conversation at the top leadership table. Many have done ...
Global Logistics Management from a Domestic 3PL
Oct 01, 2008; ... The case for leveraging a domestic third-party logistics provider to manage a global supply chain Every globally recognized company has inherently different supply chain management and third-party logistics (3PL) needs. What may work for a domestic company that ships to domestic partners ...
Enabling GM's Global Supply Chain
Oct 01, 2008; ... General Motors Corp. has been the annual global sales leader in its industry for 77 years, but in the decade ahead the company will be looking to the global market for a significant share of its growth. CEO Rick Wagoner believes that the company could see as much 75 percent of its car and truck ...