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 [...]
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 [...]
Revered playwrite George Bernard Shaw once said “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” Recently there was a highly-publicized construction project close to my neighborhood east of Toronto, Canada. The new office building was to be the centerpiece of a business improvement area revitalization [...]
My professional background is predominantly in retailing. I cannot begin to relate the number of times great ideas have met with failure due to the inability of different areas to communicate and work together as a team. Promotions are critical to the sales performance in many retailers. My son delivers newspapers to our neighbours that [...]
“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 [...]
The planned construction of a new border crossing between Canada and the USA at Windsor-Detroit is welcome news to supply chain practitioners, tradesmen, labourers, and communities on both sides of the border. Canada and the United States are huge trading partners. The United States is by far Canada’s biggest trading partner, accounting for between 62% [...]
Module 4 of the excellent “What is Supply Chain Management” series, produced by ASU and the W. P. Carey School of Business, introduces the components of transportation and logistics, and their roles within the supply chain. Learn the differences between transportation and logistics, and the relevance to each in every day life. This video lasts [...]
Four years ago, I asked a group of professional colleagues for their recommendations regarding the “best of the best” resources that would help me learn more about Lean. As a long-time practitioner of SCM, it is virtually impossible not to have at least a cursory knowledge of subjects like Lean, Just-in-time (JIT), and Six Sigma. [...]
The importance of managing risk through the supply chain has become painfully evident as a result of natural disasters which have occurred in recent months and years. Not withstanding the obvious human cost and tragedy that ensued, catastrophes caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, flooding in Thailand, factory explosions in Germany, and volcanic [...]
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