Can you imagine driving a car through a rain storm, without engaging the windshield wipers? Most of us wouldn’t dare try this. It is simply too dangerous. The performance capabilities of the car beneath us - be it a 20-year-old sedan or a brand new SUV – would matter less to us than whether the [...]
The “work cell” can be a pretty mysterious beast to anyone working outside of the Lean Six Sigma arena. But the simple fact is that most people already know how to design a work cell, whether they know it or not. It really is a matter of taking some rather common sense principles, and using [...]
What does supply chain management have to do with information technology? In a word, “everything.” One of the reasons I chose to build a career in SCM was that the supply chain, or logistics practitioner occupies a unique position within most firms: we touch and interact with virtually every other discipline within the company. We [...]
When I was an undergraduate studying Economics and Mathematics at university in Canada, “beer games” had everything to do with chugging pint-sized glasses of alcoholic malted beverages as quickly as possible, and as frequently as possible, while minimizing the spillage of the precious amber liquid. Little did I know at that time that something called [...]
Obtaining a degree in Supply Chain Management is becoming increasingly worthwhile. When I was undertaking the examination preparation courses in pursuit of the APICS CPIM certification in Operations Management, we talked about the notions of “order qualifiers” and “order winners.” Essentially, an “order qualifier” is some attribute that needs to be inherent within a product [...]
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 [...]
Module 9 of the excellent “What is Supply Chain Management” series, produced by ASU and the W. P. Carey School of Business, stresses the importance of good business process design in achieving commercial and entrepreneurial success. I was personally drawn to one assertion in particular that was made in the video: that good business processes [...]
Rarely does a person see a 5-star rating appear opposite a book that is sold on Amazon – especially a technical one. Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3rd edition, by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith (2011) is just one such nugget of gold. For manufacturing, operations, and inventory management professionals, this work promises to be a [...]
“EOQ”. These three letters invoke either a profound sense of nostalgia in the heart of the seasoned practitioner of Inventory Management, or a sense of fear and anxiety, especially among the newer converts to the Church of OM. (That’s OM, as in Operations Management…) Indeed, I have had a number of students in my OM [...]
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 [...]
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