Are We Entering the Age of the Drones?

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The World in 2030: Dr. Michio Kaku

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A wonderful peek into the future by Dr. Kaku. If supply chain and operations management practitioners want to invest intelligently and respond efficiently, we must be prepare to surf the crest of the technological wave, and climb out of our Industrial Revolution Era paradigms. In and of itself, this will result in competitive advantage. Given [...]

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” – [...]

What Is Supply Chain Management? MIT’s “The Lemonade Stand”

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For someone who has been employed in the fields of Supply Chain, Operations, or Logistics Management for some years, it might be challenging to have a concise, articulate answer to one simple question: “what is supply chain management?” Asking a supply chain professional that question can be a little like asking a doctor to define [...]

What Is Supply Chain Management? “Quality”

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What is “Quality?” I venture to say that there is no adequate, concise definition. It is a subject that has commanded thousands of volumes of scholarly work. By virtue of the fact that quality is an entirely subjective concept, quality can manifest in infinite ways. One of the better attempts at a definition that I [...]

What Is Supply Chain Management? “Measuring Performance”

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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 [...]

EdX: The Democratization of Education

edX The Democratization of Education is at hand

Harvard / MIT Initiative a Watershed Reminiscent of The Moon Landing If we truly believe that human enlightenment may be achieved through education, then a recent, and largely unheralded announcement made by edX may prove to be one of the most important initiatives to be launched in decades. We are privileged, in our lifetimes, to [...]

The USS New York: An Inspiring Journey into Military Logistics

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For centuries, we have understood that excellent logistical planning and execution is the foundation of success in the battlefield. There is no greater example of this than the truly inspirational story of the construction and  USS New York. In an episode of its wonderful series “Mighty Ships,” The Discovery Channel takes viewers on a journey [...]

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