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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For children, school is the best place to work. According to the International Labour Organisation, there are over 215 million children working across the world and of these 115 million are thought to be involved in hazardous work. The number of those between the ages of 5-14 and engaged in child labour is estimated by [...]
Technology and creative “moonshot” thinking are combining once again to present an incredible solution to some serious limitations faced by logistics professionals. Many of us might commonly associate the word “drone” with those terrible and antiseptic instruments of 21st Century warfare, border and police surveillance, spying, or the antagonists to humanity in some post-apocalyptic Hollywood [...]
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, [...]
Supply Chain Management practitioners are famous for using acronyms. In an effort to demystify our language, Supply Chain Almanac has developed the following Glossary. It contains over 600 abbreviations that are relevant to those who work in and around the Supply Chain. This is our Second Edition, new and revised with dozens of new acronyms added [...]
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 [...]
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