CSCMP Annual Global Conference 2013

CSCMP Global Conference

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 Toxic Workplace: The Culture of Fear

Fear in the Workplace

Not only does fear destroy any sense of team spirit and pride, but it also shuts down important communication channels, inhibiting the flow of creative, constructive, and corrective ideas upstream. Just how might the front-line employee fall victim to fear at the workplace? In the 1992 classic movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin masterfully portrays [...]

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 [...]

Child Labour: Poison to the Ethical Supply Chain

Child Labour Risk Map 2012 from Maplecroft

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 [...]

Green Energy: Big Wind Equals Big Cost for Ontario Taxpayers

The Cost of Green

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 – [...]

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 [...]

Top 25 Supply Chain Management Degree Programs 2013

University of San Diego

A critical choice in any student’s life is the post-secondary institution that he or she plans to attend. Businesses and public sector entities demand that candidates for employment possess higher and higher levels of skill in virtually every academic discipline, including business, science, social sciences, technology and operations management. The pace of change in the [...]

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 [...]

SAPICS Annual Conference 2013

2013 SAPICS Conference

From June 2 to June 4 2013, SAPICS will be hosting a unique and valuable learning and networking opportunity for supply chain professionals. The 2013 Conference will take place at the Sun City Resort, near the city of Johannesburg. It’s theme will be Design for Change. This year’s conference will cover broad trends affecting the profession, [...]

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