Sep 23, 2003
An academic colleague of mine who teaches at the China-Europe International University in Shanghai, Professor Linda Sprague, has been living in China and teaching university in Beijing for the last…
Sep 16, 2003
Supply chain managers know that the cost of fuel and the cost of labor are important determinants of the cost of transportation services. Recently however, seemingly less obvious but important…
Sep 11, 2003
It is notable that the success of an outsourced project is not only dependent on technological capability, but is more dependent on the service organization to effectively communicate with its…
Sep 4, 2003
What is “hybrid mode” supply management? A recent SupplyChainBrain.com article that covered a study by AMR Research describes it as a mixed manufacturing mode that lies somewhere between a make-to-stock…
Aug 28, 2003
Many companies today are deploying a myriad of procurement strategies, including: Applying reverse auctions to all commodities Apply strategic alliances with all commodities Outsourcing of key business processes Leveraging and…
Aug 20, 2003
Business people have long used survey-based reports to observe markets and aid forecasting. In this regard, reports of purchasing manager surveys, in particular, are popular because they quickly furnish both…
Aug 14, 2003
I was recently asked by a team of people from one of our partner companies the following question: We are moving to a governance role from a service role, with…
Aug 7, 2003
Though Japanese firms first embraced supplier development after the end of World War II, it has only begun to take hold in the United States in the past three decades.…
Jul 15, 2003
Energy sector capital projects typically cost hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars to construct. A major component of these projects is the engineered equipment that the facility is…
Jul 9, 2003
Lean Manufacturing, an approach to manufacturing made famous by Toyota, has been hailed as the next great thing by consultants and practitioners. Fads, like reengineering and ERP solutions, have come…
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