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 [...]

APICS 2013 International Conference and Expo

APICS Logo

2013 APICS International Conference & Expo September 29-October 1, 2013 Orlando, Florida, USA Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center Register here. Attend the leading global gathering of supply chain and operations management professionals. Connect the APICS body of knowledge to strategies and tactics to meet and overcome the challenges companies face in the changing landscape [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Measuring Carbon Footprints: A Bold New Approach from Columbia University

Carbon Footprint

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, [...]

Procurement Certification: What Are the Options?

What direction should you take?

There is a bewildering amount of choice in today’s market for training, education, and certification. Many who labor within the supply chain eventually come to a watershed moment in their career: they ask themselves, “Am I passionate about this line of work? Do I see a future for me within SCM?” These questions might even [...]

McDonald’s Provides a Peek Behind the Scenes

McDonalds Ad Hungary

McDonald’s Restaurants has taken its fair share of punches in the informal dining sector. Hay-makers have been thrown by everyone from PETA to anti-obesity advocacy groups. Perhaps some of the criticism is deserved. But we do continue to enjoy its products, and as the ld saying goes, “the proof of the pudding is in the [...]

SpaceX Dragon: Extreme Supply Chain Management

SpaceX Dragon

Whoever said supply chain management wasn’t sexy ought to look up. Way up. Another incredible chapter in the amazing story of 21st century supply chain innovation is being written, some 200 miles over our heads. On Sunday, October 7, 2012, an unmanned commercial cargo ship blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, embarking on a supply [...]

Supply Chain Integration: Opportunities for the US Department of Defense

US Department of Defense

  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 [...]

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