Global Supply Chain

Jan 20, 2012

Reacting to Disruptions: The real test for belonging to the "world class supply chain" club?

Many people are quick to point to the AMR Top 25 supply chains as the benchmark for supply chain excellence. In my mind, the real test of how “world-class” a… 

Jan 18, 2012

Apple's Labor and Human Rights Nightmare: Transparency is the Right Thing to Do

For several years, we have been extolling the importance of Labor and Human Rights violations as a critical component of sustainable supply chains. In a previous post, we also identified… 

Jan 4, 2012

Regional government policies have raised problems for Chinese talent-seekers

In this on-going blog theme on China, we explore some of the challenges experienced by companies seeking talented individuals for supply chain roles as they expand in Asia. Much of… 

Jan 3, 2012

Logistics Education in China

Though the advancement of higher education in China has produced more graduate students for entering level positions in foreign logistics companies, locating qualified candidates is a real challenge. Several of… 

Dec 6, 2011

Lenovo Relies on Agile Communications in a Disruptive Environment

One of the highlights of our SCRC meeting was a presentation by John Zapko, VP of Global Procurement at Lenovo. In his presentation to the group, John discussed some of… 

Dec 5, 2011

Time for Creative Thinking on the Economic Front

Steve Allen, Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of the Graduate Program in the Poole College of Management spoke about the current state of the economy at the SCRC meeting… 

Dec 5, 2011

Gaps In Relationships and Contracts in Eastern and Western Cultures

In this second post, I summarize additional insights that several of our speakers put forward at our recent SCRC meeting on Dec 1-2, 2011. We were lucky to have Tim… 

Dec 5, 2011

Darwinism, Ignatius of Loyala, and SAP in Mongolia: Insights from the SCRC Meeting on Supply Chain Agility

The SCRC meeting on “Creating Agility in a Globally Volatile Environment” provided a broad variety of speakers who shared a number of different perspectives on the approaches that supply chain…