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Citation of Excellence Awards 2012

SCM Research

2008): Unraveling the food supply chain: Strategic insights from China and the 2007 recalls. 2006): A cultural perspective of relationship orientation: Using organizational culture to support a supply relationship orientation , Craighead et al. Unraveling the food supply chain: Strategic insights from China and the 2007 recalls.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. The analysis is for two time periods: 2006-2015 and 2009-2015. The period of 2007-2008 was the great recession. In Figure 2, we share the average results by industry peer group for each metric and contrast the average value of 2006 to 2015.

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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

SCMDOJO

Adapted from Ehrlich (2002); Stamatis (2002); George (2003); Bendell (2006); Bhuiyan et.al, (2006); Andersson et.al, (2006); Arnheiter and Maleyeff (2005); Nonthaleerak (2005); Kumar (2007); Magnusson et.al, (2003) Read more on Top 15 Lean Six Sigma Books to Level Up Your Continuous Improvement Efforts & Strategy on our website SCMDOJO!

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. It is worse in some industries. The average is twenty-five days.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

I must say that I do enjoy hearing the keynotes, and throughout the past 10 years, they have provided great learnings to apply to supply chain as well as personal growth. However, I would like to see more globally impactful keynotes. Alan Greenspan. 13 th Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Bill Clinton. 42 nd President of the United States.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Tech bubble burst. Bush tax cut, 9/11 attacks. War on Terror. Katrina, Bankruptcy Act. Bernanke became Fed Chair. Bank crisis. Financial crisis. ACA, Dodd-Frank Act. Debt ceiling crisis.

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What the 2020 Nobel Prize Means for SCM

SCM Research

Let us not forget the important work on auctions that has already been conducted in our discipline, for example by Wagner & Schwab (2004) , Hartley and her coauthors (2006) and Carter & Kaufmann (2007) , to name just a few.

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