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Citations of Excellence Awards 2014

SCM Research

The first paper by Kim, Ferrin & Rao (2008) presents a trust-based consumer decision-making model in electronic commerce. A Trust-based Consumer Decision-making Model in Electronic Commerce: The Role of Trust, Perceived Risk, and Their Antecedents. Ferrin, D., & Rao, H. Ferrin, D., & Rao, H. 2007.07.001. Lessons from Nike.

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How Are Counterfeit Drugs Procured?

MIT Supply Chain

A new approach focuses on the way these products are procured. The research explores a new approach to combating drug counterfeiters: devising mitigation strategies based on the way dispensers procure medicines. Second, the procurement of counterfeit product is often the result of an inadequate supply of authentic medicines.

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Can B2B e-commerce solve supply chain issues?

Cathy Roberson

According to IHS Markit, March US purchasing manager’s index (PMI) was the second strongest since data collection began in May 2007. Grainger was an early adopter of B2B e-commerce dating back to 1995 with the launch of its first electronic catalog. In 2019, it re-acquired HD Supply, a company it sold in 2007.

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Labor Strike Targeting the Three U.S. Automakers- Update Two

Supply Chain Matters

He went on to explain that this prior era included the economic shocks of the seventies and the global financial crisis in 2007 to 2008 when the real threat of two of the three U.S. Specifically for the U.S. southern states where right to work and non-union labor laws are practiced. automakers facing bankruptcy.

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A Fireside Chat with John Sculley, Apple’s former CEO

NC State SCRC

” A question came from the audience: “Fundamentally – procurement is measured on cost savings as the primary metric. Let’s imagine we are back in 2007 – and Kodak was focused on a project which sought how to compete with Wal Mart in a single use camera taking market share away from their camera.

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Labor Strike Targeting U.S. Automakers- Update Five

Supply Chain Matters

Southern States and the UAW agreeing to a two-tiered wage system for entry level workers in 2007 in the midst of the bankruptcy fears of two of these automakers. The further notion is cited data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that since 2003, the average hourly wage for U.S.

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GeSI partners with EcoVadis to drive sustainability in ICT industry supply chains

EcoVadis

GeSI recognized that sustainability in the ICT industry supply Chain has become a strategic issue for its members in Europe, in the Americas and Asia, and therefore, decided to launch a new initiative in this area, the Electronic Tool for Accountable Supply Chains (E-TASC).