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 β¦
According to a recent study by Accenture entitled βA New Era of Sustainabilityβ, sustainability has made it to the top of almost every CEOs agenda. The study was carried out among 766 CEOs the world β¦
Companies in the supply chain are becoming more and more dependent on third parties. They outsourceΒ more and more production to contract companies. At Apple, it has gone so far that the entire supply chain β¦
Getting logistics service providers and shipping companies to work well together continues to be an issue. Last year, Lenny Visser wrote her thesis on this very topic whilst finishing her studies at Tilburg University. βThe β¦
Different customer value propositions require different supply chain approaches β that is the essence of what Professor David Simchi-Levi, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, hopes to get across in his book βOperations β¦
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 β¦
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 β¦
Is leadership nature or nurture? My personal opinion is that we are either born to be leaders, or we are not. But as became evident in a recent poll amongst supply chain directors in our β¦
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is currently a hot topic. But the new buzz word in the supply chain is currently βjourneyβ. This week, Niek Visarius, interim supply chain manager at AkzoNobel, called S&OP a β¦
With efficiency and productivity at work currently being more important than ever before, most managers feel that they are working harder yet achieving less. Ron Ashkenas has identified four major causes of complexity in an β¦
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