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CSCMP Annual Global Conference 2013
CSCMP’s Annual Global Conference offers supply chain management practitioners more professional education and personal growth opportunities than any other event in the world. Learn from global experts and network with thousands of colleagues. Learn ways to cut supply chain costs and improve your bottom line. Network with colleagues from all over the world. Discover new [...]
Business Management Books: The 25 Most Influential – Ever!
In 2011, TIME Magazine assembled a list of what may be considered to be the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books of the modern era. Great books are timeless. They outlive their creators. They live on in the thoughts of their readers. They endure for generations and even centuries, in print or in digital format. [...]
Marine Logistics: The Largest Ships Afloat!
So you think you know big. What you are about to read redefines the term “big”. In February of 2011, Mærsk line announced that it had commissioned Korea’s Daewoo to build the world’s largest ship. At a cost of US$190 million, the 400 meter-long ’Triple-E’ class behemoth will carry 18,000 TEU containers, 2500 more than the vessel [...]
Retail Renaissance: Supply Chain Best Practices Support New Marketing Channels
Just what is retail? I have had an intimate relationship with retailing for many years, and I am not sure that I really know the answer myself. I suppose that one might say at its most fundamental level, retailing is the process of establishing a connection with a consumer or end-user in order to facilitate [...]
Management
Developing a High-Impact Strategic Plan
As the senior manager or proprietor of a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), does the prospect of developing a strategic plan frighten the daylights out of you? Do you view strategic planning as the exclusive domain of intellectuals, expensive consultants, or even mystical practitioners in the Dark Arts? Perhaps the overwhelming volume of literature and [...]
Ten Poisons that Derail Strategic Plans
Following up on my earlier article titled “Developing a High Impact Strategic Plan,” there are a number of forces that can, and will derail a successful, and effective strategic plan. Here is a short list of what I call “Ten Poisons” to appreciate, and avoid during the strategic planning process: Shortsightedness: Do not confuse short-term tactics [...]
Workplace Stress Improves Worldwide
But the Devil is in the Details Consulting Group Grant Thornton International has published the results of its global survey of business leaders, and has discovered that the rate of increase of workplace stress levels are dampening, as the world finds stability in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. However, Grant Thornton’s International Business [...]
Solving Problems: Five Steps to Emancipation
By: John Skelton, Senior Editor Imagine being a senior operations executive in a distribution business where sales are – at best – flat, relative to previous years. Meetings with the sales team get ugly. The Blame Game erupts, and fingers point in every conceivable direction. Rhetoric leads to acrimony. Emotions run amok and morale declines. [...]
Events
CSCMP Annual Global Conference 2013
CSCMP’s Annual Global Conference offers supply chain management practitioners more professional education and personal growth opportunities than any other event in the world. Learn from global experts and network with thousands of colleagues. Learn ways to cut supply chain costs and improve your bottom line. Network with colleagues from all over the world. Discover new [...]
APICS 2013 International Conference and Expo
2013 APICS International Conference & Expo September 29-October 1, 2013 Orlando, Florida, USA Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center Register here. Attend the leading global gathering of supply chain and operations management professionals. Connect the APICS body of knowledge to strategies and tactics to meet and overcome the challenges companies face in the changing landscape [...]
Green
Green Energy: Big Wind Equals Big Cost for Ontario Taxpayers
I was an environmentalist before it was fashionable to be so. As a child, growing up in a town just west of the city of Toronto, Ontario, I encountered the budding environmental movement as a toddler. I have carried a deep appreciation and respect for Mother Earth throughout my life. My best friend’s mother – [...]
Ocean Spray: Cost Saving and Reduced Carbon Footprint Are Compatible Goals
A little outside-the-box thinking, mixed with a willingness to change, can make a big difference. Juice producer and mega-giant Ocean Spray’s efforts to reduce costs as well as make a substantially positive environmental statement are very encouraging. They are demonstrating that bottom-line improvements and carbon footprint reductions are not mutually exclusive goals – in fact, [...]
Measuring Carbon Footprints: A Bold New Approach from Columbia University
Most practitioners in 21st century sustainable supply chains know – or at least think we know – what is meant by the term “carbon footprint.” But measuring the carbon footprint of products, activities, processes and people is a highly complex endeavor. Of course, our goal ought to be to craft a methodology that is clear, [...]
Wind Energy: Defying Gravity in Ontario
The Law of Supply and Demand is a fraud. As a recipient of a post-graduate degree in Economics, this came as quite a shock to me. To an economist, the Law of Supply and Demand is a sacrosanct as the Law of Gravity is to a physicist. It is supposed to be an immutable Truth. [...]
International Trade
Reshoring: A Viable Option?
A significant trend regarding the repatriation of production operations into the USA from Asia - otherwise known as re-shoring – is starting to emerge. Big American manufacturers are taking very seriously the option advocated by Harry Moser (The Reshoring Initiative) - and many others – that by conducting a complete and objective assessment of all [...]
Rare Earth Metal Monopolies: It’s All About the Supply Chain
Rare Earth Metals have been launched onto the international political stage in recent months, bringing global supply chain management into the red carpet spotlight as well. But like many a Hollywood starlet, they might be considerably less sexy than their names might imply, when one gets up close and personal. Rare Earth Metals (REMs) are not, [...]
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