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 [...]
A significant trend regarding the repatriation of production operations into the USA from Asia - otherwise known as re-shoring – is starting to emerge. Big American manufacturers are taking very seriously the option advocated by Harry Moser (The Reshoring Initiative) - and many others – that by conducting a complete and objective assessment of all [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
The Supply Chain Almanac Book Club regularly reviews Best Selling Books in various categories, both in Canada and the USA. Here are Canada’s Best Sellers in Books – Industry and Operations Management, according to Amazon.ca. Some new and exciting publications have erupted to the top of Canada’s Best Sellers list, in the Industry category. New [...]
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 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” – [...]
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 [...]
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