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 [...]
What kind of a person is your boss? Because most of us work in such close proximity to our supervisor, we cannot help but ask ourselves that question on a regular basis. After all, they exert enormous influence on our lives both within and outside of our place of work. . Is your boss an [...]
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 [...]
The Supply Chain Almanac Book Club regularly reviews Best Selling Books in various categories, both in Canada and the USA. Here are Canada’s Best Sellers in Books – Industry and Operations Management, according to Amazon.ca. Some new and exciting publications have erupted to the top of Canada’s Best Sellers list, in the Industry category. New [...]
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, [...]
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 10 of the excellent “What is Supply Chain Management” series, produced by ASU and the W. P. Carey School of Business, examines issues to consider when building a system of performance metrics. Accurately assessing the performance of a supply chain is rather more multidimensional than determining who might be the fastest sprinter in the [...]
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 [...]
Point 11: “Eliminate Numerical Quotas” (A Personal View) Dr. Deming is no stranger to controversy, and perhaps never more so than in his articulation of Point #11. Performance driven management has become conventional wisdom, coming into considerable conflict with the Deming management method. Deming very much opposed management’s habit of setting arbitrary production quotas [...]
High performance athletes can teach us a great deal about what it takes to succeed in life, and in business. Two weeks ago, I attended a reunion at my former rowing club in Mississauga, Canada. I competed and coached at elite levels back in the 1970′s and 1980′s, winning national and international championships. As a coach, [...]
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