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 [...]
In 2011, TIME Magazine assembled a list of what may be considered to be the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books of the modern era. Great books are timeless. They outlive their creators. They live on in the thoughts of their readers. They endure for generations and even centuries, in print or in digital format. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I was an environmentalist before it was fashionable to be so. As a child, growing up in a town just west of the city of Toronto, Ontario, I encountered the budding environmental movement as a toddler. I have carried a deep appreciation and respect for Mother Earth throughout my life. My best friend’s mother – [...]
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, [...]
“What would you create if you had a machine that could make (almost) anything?” A book about an incredible subject will soon hit the shelves of bookstores around the world. Hod Lipson’s “Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing” is scheduled for release on February 11, 2013. It is creating a tremendous buzz, and pre-orders [...]
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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