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Supply Chain Systems

Dec 23, 2014

Do You Know How Much Your Company is Spending? A Spend Analytics Checklist

The leading IT magazine, CIO Review,  today published a special issue on supply chain transformation, and included an article I wrote on spend management as a core capability. Rather than striving… 

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,… 

Feb 5, 2014

Insights from the 2014 Institute of Analytics Winter Symposium: Building a Culture of Analytics

I had the privilege of leading a session at the Winter Symposium of the International Institute of Analytics, with a host of great companies discussing how companies are embedding hardware… 

Dec 16, 2013

Handfield's Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

2013 has certainly been an interesting year!   I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives… 

Nov 6, 2013

UPS Executive Shares Insights on Total Cost of Ownership in the Electronics Supply Chain

Ken Torok came to my class on Monday evening, and provided a delightful discussion on total cost of ownership.  The class was focused on building and developing cost models, both… 

Oct 24, 2013

Posts from the BVL Conference on Logistics Innovation: Continental's Vision for the Automated Vehicle

I had the opportunity to participate in the BVL International Logistics Congress in Berlin Germany this week.  There was a great deal of discussion regarding expectations for the global economy,… 

Sep 11, 2013

Auditing, visibility and collaboration: The keys to a socially responsible supply chain

In the September issue of the Supply Chain Management Review, Andreas Wieland from Berlin Technical University and I have published a thoughtpiece on the application of social responsible criteria to… 

Jul 18, 2013

Join BVL International at the North American chapter kickoff on August 12, 2013

Logistics complexity – in the form of fragmented channels, increased product variations, and consumer demand for customized solutions – has been increasing, according to a global study published recently by… 

Oct 25, 2012

A Sustainable Energy Platform for the EU and the World

At the BVL conference, I had the opportunity to speak to the group, and provide them with an overview of the insights and trends from the global logistics study that… 

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 –…