| | | Last week I attended SAPPHIRE 2008 in Orlando, Fla. This is easily one of the largest events I've seen yet. Conservative estimates had attendance at 15,000, but whispers in the Orange County Convention Center say it could have been higher than 18,000.
After about 10,000, I stop counting and pray … | |
| | | I've discovered recently that supply chain management is conspiring against my efforts to maintain a healthier lifestyle, at least when it comes to grocery shopping.
Well, ok, my zeal for pretty much anything with peanut butter in/on it is nobody's fault but my own, but everyone has noticed latel… | |
| | | Well, as I noted in a previous blog post, it seems Wal-Mart is trying to tell China (or at least the company's suppliers in China) what to do with regard to green technology, and now it seems the airline industry here in the US is feeling the same pinch, this time from Europe. According to this arti… | |
| | | It seems China is feeling the heat from greener pastures, so to speak, according to the Vietnam Supply Chain Council.
American companies are under growing pressure, both from environmentalists and from their own interest to find innovative ways to boost profits, to seek out "greener" wa… | |
| | | As I indicated in a prior post, I met recently with David Sievers, a principal at Archstone Consulting, a firm that co-wrote this piece we ran back in January.
One topic that came up was an online survey conducted by a committee of corporations and AMR Research that is attempting t… | |
| | | I was going to call this post "On the Road," but since I couldn't figure out how to write about supply chain management and still sound like a beat poet I abandoned the idea. Insetad, I'll just sum up where I've been the past two weeks and what I found relevant.
As I indicated last… | |
| | | This week, I attended the Supply Chain Operations Private Exposition (SCOPE) East event in Philadelphia. I was particularly intrigued by this year's topic, "Lean, Green and Visibility."
The event's format was split between lecture sessions and private one-on-one networking mee… | |
| | | It's not often that I go out of my way to plug software, but this article from IndustryWeek shows that the supply chain is defnintely getting serious about getting "green." Predictions at the end of 2007 indicated software and other technology will focus more on carbon footprint measu… | |
| | | One alternative to China, it seems, may be on its way out of the low-cost country sourcing race. Central and Eastern Europe, referred to in an article from Supply Excellence as "CEE" (like we need yet another acronym in the business world), has a number of advantages. According to the… | |
| | | It seems that supply chain management has made it into the mainstream press, though for an unpleasant reason. According to this article on the New York Times' Web site today, officials in the U.S. and China are probing the supply chain for the drug heparin, a blood thinner commonly prescribed here i… | |
| | | File this under "Now I've Seen Everything."
In what has to be the ultimate marriage of classroom exercise and college culture, MIT is using a 1960s-era game to illustrate key points of Supply Chain Management.
The Beer Distribution Game, created four decades ago by MIT's Sl… | |
| | | As Christopher Sciacca routinely points out, supply chain management isn't just a corporate buzzword -- it's a real process that affects all of our lives, even those of us who need to pick up flowers for our sweeties on The Most Romantic Day of the Year.
Like me. I spent a large part of my l… | |
| | | You should check out this article from Perdue University, "Green" Power to the Supply Chain, if you're still getting your feet wet when it comes to greening up your supply chain. In short, it describes the concept of green supply chain management beyond the "green"… | |
| | | In my zeal to find all things Supply Chain related, I came across this video that posted not too long ago on YouTube. Made by i2Solutions, a supply chain consulting company, the video provides a pretty clear, down-to-earth explanation of how a supply chain impacts lives and businesses… | |
| | | So, I'm back from Interlog Winter 2008, held at a convention center at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. for the first half of this week.
As I write this, the snow and sleet coming down outside is expected to change over to rain -- barely. It's enough to make me wish I was back in the sun, with … | |
| | | Recently, I wrote in this space about the grocery store of the future, depicted in this TechTV video, that shows the use of RFID tagging, portable bar-code scanners and other high-tech sorting and locating equipment common to modern warehouses being employed in a much more pedestrian … | |
| | | UK-based Cadbury-Schwepps, the maker of soft drinks, candy, and other products, has an interesting page on its Web site here that's worth a look. Here, they break one of their products, Cadbury Dairy Fruit & Nut, down into component parts and explain where each ingredient comes from. S… | |
| | | Recently, I posted about how China is trying to help the environment by banning plastic grocery bags. According to this article from Chinadaily.com, it seems the government is not stopping there, modifying its tax structure to encourage companies to go green.
From the article: "The… | |
| | | According to this article in today's Shanghai Daily, the "Paper or plastic?" argument will be over pretty soon in the low-cost country sourcer's paradise. The government is planning to ban plastic bags, in an effort to conserve oil and reduce waste. Makes you wonder whether or not these re… | |
| | | There's an interesting white paper available here which seems to be coining a new supply chain-related buzzword: the "Waste Chain."
Clearly the Green movement that started and accelerated rapidly last year is forcing companies to take another look at their impact on the environment, but… | |
| | | There's an interesting eight-minute video found here that says a lot about the future of materials handling. True, it's not a warehouse - it's a grocery store. Still, it's been said that technology filters down into "everyday" hands as soon as it gets cheap enough.
If that's … | |
| | | If the green movement will keep going through the supply chain next year (which it probably will), any tools to help understand a company's impact on Mother Earth will be helpful, and potentially profitable. A new report, titled "The Inefficient Truth," clearly a play on the title of the A… | |
| | | Ok, whether this is a truly viable alternative to conventional propulsion for ocean-based freight is, well, debatable, but this article is still worth a look. This unusual freighter uses a sail. That's right, an honest-to-goodness, wind-driven sail as a primary form of propulsion(Ok, they call … | |
| | | Yesterday, I spent the day in Boston, taking in the first half of AMR's annual two-day Executive Leadership Conference. I have to admit this year's theme, "The New IT Story," makes a lot of sense. In short, the theme is a cry for a greater involvement of IT in your business model. The firm… | |
| | | Recently, I discovered the Web site for India's Supply Chain Council, which you can find here. Not like I didn't know India had a supply chain council, nor was I shocked to find such an extensive and informative site, but the occasional article like this one here is an interesting perspective. … | |
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