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Oct 30, 2012

Guest Post by Andreas Wieland (Technical University Berlin): Impressions of BVL's 29th Annual Congress

I am happy to be invited to share my impressions of the 29th International Supply Chain Conference in this guest post. The conference is organized by the German Logistics Association…

Oct 25, 2012

A Sustainable Energy Platform for the EU and the World

At the BVL conference, I had the opportunity to speak to the group, and provide them with an overview of the insights and trends from the global logistics study that…

Oct 17, 2012

ThyssenKrupp: The Amazon of Material Services

ThyssenKrupp is one of the big steel producers in Europe, and is getting ready to move to a completely different supply chain model.  The company competes in a number of…

Oct 17, 2012

Logistics Notes from the BVL Conference in Berlin

This week I had the opportunity to attend the BVL (Bundesvereinigung Logistik) conference in beautiful Berlin, Germany.  Berlin in the fall is a beautiful time of year, with the leaves…

Oct 11, 2012

Ralph Lauren's Supply Chain: A Lot More Complex Then You Think!

Jeff Holcomb, Senior Vice President of Customer Operations and US Transportation at Ralph Lauren’s offices in Greensboro, NC spoke in my MBA supply chain class last week.  He told the…

Sep 25, 2012

The Father of Collaborative Relationship Management Passes Away

Unless you happened to be reading the NY Times obituary columns this week, you wouldn’t have noticed that one of the great supply chain innovators of the 20th century, Gerard…

Sep 19, 2012

Three Key Trends in the Brazilian Logistics Market

I recently interviewed a senior logistics executive at one of the top three largest logistics service provider firms in Brazil.  This gentleman provided a very cogent and insightful set  of…

Sep 13, 2012

Exploiting social media to drive sustainable supply market intelligence

As organizations seek to become more sustainable, they are recognizing the limitations they face with current data systems that collect and consolidate technical information on your suppliers and their process…

Sep 12, 2012

Organizations Continue to Expand their Global Supply Chain Footprint…But Not Without Growing Pains

Organizations in multiple sectors are continuing to pursue global growth strategies that focus on expansion into new regions.  In particular, the focal BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) represent major…

Sep 4, 2012

Do Investors Really Reward Sustainable Enterprises? What do You think?…

The SCRC research team has recently been conducting a series of studies, whereby we try to link improvements in share price performance, with higher scores on sustainable supply chain performance.…