| | Frank Quinn blogs about the supply chain trends he sees, the people he's met, and the places he's been as editorial director of Supply Chain Management Review. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use |
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| | | SCMR, in collaboration with CSC Consulting and Michigan State University, has been conducting our annual “Survey of Supply Chain Progress” since 2002. The study is intended to track how well supply chain practitioners are advancing along the key metrics of people, processes, and tec… | |
| | | Last year I wrote a column about the so-called mating season that bears revisiting this time of year. I noted that my first boss in the publishing business used to refer to the spring and summer months as the mating season. That was the time when we reporters would go to the various industry e… | |
| | | A significant portion of SCMR readers (and viewers of this blog) work in a logistics- related job. That’s why we’re always eager to see the results of the annual Salary Survey conducted by Logistics Management magazine, one of our sister publications at Reed Business Information.
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| | | Ed Koch, a mayor of New York in the 1980s, had a particular way of benchmarking his performance as mayor of the city. As he traveled around the five boroughs, he would walk up to residents and simply ask, “How Am I doing?” For Koch, that was a lot more effective, and probably … | |
| | | Where do you get your daily supply chain news? Chances are, you turn to a number of sources—from popular general publications like the Wall Street Journal and Business Week to more targeted websites offered by the specialized business magazines and websites.
There’s one ot… | |
| | | At SCMR we always trying to promote the supply chain management and the people who work in this field (no surprise here, right, that the title of our magazine). A big part of that is offering insights and information on how supply chain folks can get recognition and reward for what they … | |
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Want proof of the direct correlation between supply chain excellence and superior financial performance? AMR Research has it for you.
Every year the research firm does a report on its Top 25 supply chains. It’s an exhaustive piece of research that considers key financial metrics, co… | |
| | | We knew that the day of the $100 a barrel oil price would come. And, sure enough, it happened on Jan. 2. 2008. What a way to welcome in the New Year!
Whether the price of oil keeps escalating or hovers around the $100/barrel mark is anybody’s guess. But on thing seems cert… | |
| | | From a supply chain standpoint, the days leading up to Christmas and the holidays should be a happy (albeit a little hectic) time of year. All the toys and other goodies should be snugly nested in the retail outlet or tucked in the distribution center for online orders. For the most part, that&rsquo… | |
| | | The annual CSCMP Conference held last week in Philadelphia left me with one overwhelming impression: This is still the best bang for your educational buck in the logistics/supply chain space. Where else do you have access to over 120 workshops, keynote sessions, literature tables, learning exc… | |
| | | When I started working in the business-to-business publishing world, my first editor used to talk to me about the "mating season." That was the period in the fall months of the year, when the big industry and professional associations would hold their annual meetings. It was a time f… | |
| | | If there was ever a publication that could use a good set of bloggers, it's Supply Chain Management Review. The reason: we only publish our print magazine nine times a year, and there’s a lot happening in the supply chain space in between issues.
That’s why the four b… | |
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