Supply Chain Innovation

Feb 26, 2015

Omni-Channel Supply Chains Are Changing Everything You Ever Learned in School…

A senior executive from a large global manufacturer came to speak in my MBA class this week, and discussed the major shifts in global business that was occurring due to… 

Nov 20, 2014

Apple's Sapphire Supplier: A Textbook Example of Supplier Relationships Gone Bad

Today’s breaking Wall Street Journal article provides a great case study on the impacts of not properly managing contractual supplier relationships. First consider the type of supply arrangement this represented.… 

Jun 22, 2014

Thoughts from EurOMA Palermo: Operations Management and the Innovation Economy

Just finished speaking at the EurOMA conference in Palermo, and was excited by the discussions and feedback over the course of today.  I arrived in Palermo yesterday, and had an… 

Jun 20, 2014

The Emergence of the Biobased Economy

Jay Golden from Duke University and I have been working on a study of the biobased economy…. Throughout human history agriculture been used for non-food purposes including energy, clothing, shelter,… 

Jun 1, 2014

Charlotte Area CPO's Share Insights on Supplier Relationship Management

I had the opportunity to host a roundtable at Fleming’s Steakhouse in downtown Charlotte for a group of Chief Procurement Officers hosted by Accenture, sharing thoughts on the subject of… 

Apr 25, 2014

Supplier Relationship Management is About PEOPLE (Sorry it's not about Technology)

We had some great insights from two speakers on our final day of the SCRC Meeting.  Our first speaker was Lowell Hoffman, who spoke about some of the lessons learned… 

Apr 23, 2014

Insights from the SCRC Meeting on Supplier-Led Innovation

We had a great turnout with over 120 executives at our SCRC meeting today at the downtown Marriott in Raleigh.  The theme, Supplier-Led Innvoation, featured a number of excellent speakers… 

Mar 29, 2014

Major Trends Impacting the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Ecosystem

As “Obamacare” continues to plow forward, the effects on the healthcare environment are slowly but surely being felt.  One of the biggest recipients of this trend is the pharmaceutical environment.… 

Mar 22, 2014

"Supplier-Led Innovation" – Theme for Upcoming SCRC Meeting April 23-24, 2014

Our SCRC team sent out invitations to our next SCRC meeting on April 23 and 24, which will focus on a theme that is often discussed in the press, but… 

Mar 3, 2014

Supplier-Led Innovation Workshop

In 2003, Nokia was in a lawsuit and could not use Qualcomm chips in their phones.  Nokia was addressing the future of America and Asia driven by China, but couldn’t…