Supply Chain Management

Aug 13, 2012

Unilever's End-to-End Sustainability Push: Hitting all elements of the supply chain…

Unilever’s Corporate Sustainability Report came out in the last month, and was received with great fanfare. Some of the highlights identified in the first year of its Sustainable Living Plan released…

Aug 7, 2012

Key Forces to Consider that will Impact the Future Global Logistics Environment

Today’s global logistics environment is characterized by increasing complexity and a much greater number of parameters shaping the logistics environment. The speed of trends is breathtaking and increasingly complicated –…

Jul 30, 2012

A differentiated lean volume channel strategy for Russia and India

I recently spoke with a CFO in charge of building a global value chain into India and Russia, who shared with me some of his insights on the differentiated supply…

Jul 25, 2012

Insights from the Logistics Hub of Europe (or why flowers from Kenya are more sustainable than those from Holland)

Today had an opportunity to speak with Enno Osinga, Senior Vice President of Cargo Operations at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. For the uninitiated, the Netherlands has the largest number of European DC’s, with…

Jul 17, 2012

Five "Not so Easy" Pieces: Globalizing the Industrial Supply Chain

This summer we kicked off a new research project being sponsored by for BVL International entitled “Trends and Strategies in SCM/Logistics”. BVL International is a non-profit neutral platform to promote…

Jul 5, 2012

What does B stand for in BRIC Logistics Trends?

Prior discussions I’ve had with supply chain executives have alluded to the many challenges that exist in the BRIC economies. Brazil is the first letter in BRIC, and perhaps also…

Jul 3, 2012

They're Posted! Latest Supply Chain Sustainability Benchmark Reports!

Every other year, a team of MBA students from the Poole College of Management take a one credit class I teach on supply chain sustainability. As part of this class,…

Jun 29, 2012

Upsides and Downsides of Logistics Clusters

As Yossi Sheffi pointed out at the SCL Europe conference last week, logisics clusters have positive AND negative consequences as well. One of the biggest negatives is the environmental impact,…

Jun 20, 2012

An interview with Yossi Sheffi on Logistics Clusters

Yossi Sheffi from MIT’s Sloan School of Management presented at the SCL Europe meeting in Berlin today, and spoke about his upcoming book on logistics clusters. These comments provide some…

Jun 20, 2012

Emphasizing PEOPLE and PROCESS in Beiersdorf's global supply chains

I sat in on a panel debate today at the World Trade Group meeting for Supply Chain and Logistics Europe in Berlin. During the panel, I had an opportunity to…