McDonald’s Restaurants has taken its fair share of punches in the informal dining sector. Hay-makers have been thrown by everyone from PETA to anti-obesity advocacy groups. Perhaps some of the criticism is deserved. But we do continue to enjoy its products, and as the ld saying goes, “the proof of the pudding is in the [...]
Whoever said supply chain management wasn’t sexy ought to look up. Way up. Another incredible chapter in the amazing story of 21st century supply chain innovation is being written, some 200 miles over our heads. On Sunday, October 7, 2012, an unmanned commercial cargo ship blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, embarking on a supply [...]
Here is an immutable Law of Nature: All beings, forces and things in the universe are interconnected. It follows, then, that all actions, processes, and activities that take place within and around a business entity effect each other through a vast web of inter-connectivity. Whether we accept that principle or not, or whether we choose [...]
What is crowd sourcing, and how can it improve SCM? Many of us will recall watching in awe in late 2010 as a fruit vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire, in protest against what he viewed as public humiliation inflicted upon him by a police officer. His crime was selling fruit and vegetables without [...]
Just how powerful are National Brands? For retailers who have relied upon big brand names and consumer loyalty to a specific label, the sand seems to have shifted beneath their feet. And with ubiquitous outsourcing of production from traditional geographical areas upon which brand reputation was built, to offshore factories and assemblers, do brands still [...]
Rolls Royce. The name just oozes with quality, style, and superb engineering. The closest that most of us get to a Rolls Royce emblem is while we are sitting in an airplane. As we look out the window, we might catch a glimpse of the famous Rolls Royce logo emblazoned on one of the engines. For [...]
“Not one person in 2012 should be going into work without the goal of “reinventing themselves” every day.” This was a key piece of advice given by John Tory during his opening keynote speech at Supply Chain and Logistics Canada’s 45th Annual Conference in Toronto today. John Tory is a household name in Canada’s Province [...]
We are on the verge of a third Industrial Revolution, and it is in that change that the Western economies can find unlimited opportunities in the field of manufacturing. It is true that a significant number of manufacturing-related jobs have migrated from the United States to lower-cost jurisdictions such as China, India, and Indonesia. America [...]
We live in a world of 3D printers, additive manufacturing, and nanoparticles. And they are about to change the face of the shop floor forever. It appears that we are on the verge of a third Industrial Revolution. Three years ago, I attended a Professional Development Meeting at Durham College’s Integrated Manufacturing Centre in Oshawa, [...]
A March explosion that seriously damaged a German factory owned by Evonik Industries has threatened to bring automotive supply chains around the globe to their knees. But a spokesperson for Ford Motor Company has shed some positive light on the situation, indicating that auto manufacturers might be able to steer around the storm. The the [...]
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