Reports

The Chief Supply Chain Officer Report 2011

This year’s report Chief Supply Chain Officer Report 2011 has been coauthored by Dr. Hau Lee, Chairman of SCM World and Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, …

Slimstock – Platinum Partner

Partners

Slimstock – Platinum Partner

For over 15 years, Slimstock has been synonymous with better demand forecasting, effective inventory management, clearer inventory analysis and continuous improvement of inventory reliability. Over 400 companies in Europe – across a wide range of …

Reports, Sustainability

Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain Report 2011

Over 50% of an average corporation’s carbon emissions are typically from the supply chain rather than within its own four walls. Managing supply chain emissions is therefore critical if we are going to address climate …

Reports, Visibility

New rules for a new decade with smarter supply chains

A vision for smarter supply chain management Rapport van IBM Institue for Business Value, October 2010 Three new supply chain management rules help counter complexity and demand variability and help restore supply chain stability: 1. Know the customer …

Reports, Sustainability

CEOs struggling with supply chain sustainability

According to a recent study by Accenture entitled ‘A New Era of Sustainability’, sustainability has made it to the top of almost every CEOs agenda. The study was carried out among 766 CEOs the world …

Reports

Supply Chain Resilience 2010

Business Continuity Management is proving to be an effective technique to better understand supply chain dependencies and develop a robust strategy to deal with disruption. BCM provides a practical and proven methodology to ensure an …

Blogs

To the buttons

Companies in the supply chain are becoming more and more dependent on third parties. They outsource  more and more production to contract companies. At Apple, it has gone so far that the entire supply chain …

August 2010’s loser of the month: Apple

Trends

August 2010’s loser of the month: Apple

Apple may be at the top of AMR Research’s annual Supply Chain Top 25, but its supply chain is not (see the online discussion by trade journal Logistiek on LinkedIn). This summer, one of Apple’s …

Career, Reports

More supply chain managers at board level

The function of supply chain management is now represented at board level within over two thirds of all companies. The two factors that most significantly impact the supply chain are customers and costs. Although there is …

Blogs

The supply chain benchmarking World Cup

It has taken most people (the sensible ones) only a few days to get over the result of the World Cup final and at least we can say we made it to the top of …