Crazy Bosses and Great Leaders: Is there a Middle Way?

Management of Organizational Behavior

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 [...]

Supply Chain Canada (SCL / CITA) 46th Annual Conference

Supply Chain Canada Conference 2013

The Supply Chain Canada Conference brings together more than 1200 leading supply chain practitioners. Attendees benefit from more than a wide variety of experienced speakers and industry experts who will share latest trends and best practices as well as provide insights into supply chain issues. In today’s competitive world it is imperative for organizations to [...]

Are We Entering the Age of the Drones?

Drones 1

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 [...]

Glossary – Supply Chain Acronyms – 2nd Edition

Acronyms Supply Chain

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 is Supply Chain Management? Supply Chains and Information Technology

The Lure of Information Technology

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 [...]

ISM Hosts 98th Annual Supply Management Conference

ISM 98th Annual Conference on Supply Management

ISM 98th Annual International Supply Management Conference & Educational Exhibit   Registration is now open! One of the premier events in the supply chain and logistics management conference circuit is the ISM Annual International Conference. Plans have just been finalized and registration is now open for the ISM’s 98th Annual International Supply Management Conference and [...]

The Beer Game: Simulating Supply Chain Management

Beer Game

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 [...]

Eli Goldratt: Thinking Globally – The Video

Eli Goldratt The Goal

The name of Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt will be familiar to many practitioners in the fields of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Author of the brilliant treatise The Goal, Goldratt articulated the famous Theory of Constraints philosophy of management. In this informative little 10-minute video, Dr. Goldratt explains the dangers of failing to think “globally” – [...]

ProMat Supply Chain Expo 2013 is Coming!

ProMat

ProMat-The Biggest Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expo of 2013 is Coming to Chicago January 21-24 Steve Forbes to Keynote ProMat 2013 Conference on January 22 When the material handling and logistics industry’s premier event, ProMat 2013, opens on January 21 it will include over 800 exhibits and an comprehensive Educational Conference that will focus on solutions [...]

Extending Payment Terms? Short Term Gain Leads to Long Term Pain

Paying the Accounts

“Doing the right thing, even when no one is looking.” If ethics could be summarized in a single phrase, I think this might be it. It applies to the destructive practice in which some buying organizations engage, when they habitually pay invoices late, settling accounts far beyond the negotiated payment terms. In my career as [...]

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