Aug 10, 2011
The instability in the current global economic system driving stock market drops is suddenly a topic of great concern. What’s going on here? Clearly the selling is driven to some…
Aug 6, 2011
Yesterday evening, the S&P credit rating agency downgraded U.S. sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. As noted by my good friend Jason Schenker, an economic forecaster,…
Aug 3, 2011
Yesterday’s WSJ shared an interesting story about the application of reverse auctions to the legal profession. For those of you who don’t know what these are, we have a long…
Jul 21, 2011
Michael Koploy’s recent blog on the after-effects, losers, and winners from the Japanese 3/11 incident provides some interesting points for thought… One of his key points is that companies who…
Jul 20, 2011
EXCEL. This may sound surprising, but based on my most recent discussions with supply chain executives reveals a surprising reliance on spreadsheets. This is happening in light of increasing complexity…
Jul 13, 2011
In a recent discussion with a group of Japanese supply chain executives, the discussion came up regarding the current state of the economy after the massive tsunami of March 2011.…
Jul 9, 2011
As part of our recent study, we also studied a large Chinese government-owned manufacturing entity that has begun moving into the construction industry space . Obtained detailed information on this…
The SCRC team recently conducted a benchmarking study focused on IT spending in the manufacturing sector. In our opinion, the current roadmap for IT in many companies is NOT aligned…
May 26, 2011
I coined this phrase from Pierre Mitchell from The Hackett Group – I think it’s probably one of his favorite terms when discussing the on-going SAP/Oracle/”fill in the blank” ERP…
May 20, 2011
I recently had an article posted in the Journal of Healthcare Transportation. The article goes into one area of healthcare that is often overlooked…..transportation. When you think about it ,…