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Citations of Excellence Awards 2013

SCM Research

Some of you may remember my last year’s post about the 2012 Citations of Excellence Awards. A year has passed since and Emerald Management Reviews has now announced the winners of the 2013 Citation of Excellence Awards. First, a paper by Lawson et al. First, a paper by Lawson et al. Petersen, K.J., Cousins, P.D., & Handfield, R.B.

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Rail 101 with Ian Jefferies

The Logistics of Logistics

From 2009 to 2013, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Jefferies also led the successful development, negotiation and reauthorization of major infrastructure legislation and managed the successful conference of Committee legislation relating to the 2012 surface transportation reauthorization law, MAP 21.

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Guest Viewpoint: What’s Driving Freight Costs Higher?

The Logistics of Logistics

mile in January 2009. The 2009 rates slowly increased to the current 2012 level. In November 2012, the CPM was $2.48/mile, Read the full article in November/December 2012 edition, Pharmaceutical Outsourcing , Vol. The best indicator of ground freight cost is the US Freight Rate Index, CPM (cost per mile).

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Terra’s Forecasting Benchmark Study 2012

Supply Chain Movement

Given the volatility and rapid pace of promotional activities and product innovation, the gradual increase in forecast error since 2009 comes as no surprise. The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry faced another year of challenges from economic turbulence and weak consumer confidence in 2011.

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Conducting and Presenting Grounded Theory Research

SCM Research

SCM journals have recently seen a series of articles advocating for the use of grounded theory, e.g., Mello and Flint (2009, JBL) and Kaufmann and Denk (2011, JSCM). The Discovery of Grounded Theory by Glaser and Strauss (1967) remains the fundamental handbook of this approach. Second, O’Reilly et al.

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Supply Chain Management:Indicators from the 2012 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. Posted by Bob Ferrari on December 18, 2012 9:01 AM | Permalink. December 2012. November 2012. October 2012. April 2012.

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Supply Chain Management:Infosys team at Pulse 2012 - Day 0

Infosys Supply Chain Management

« Mobile Gift Cards | Main | Infosys team at Pulse 2012 - Day 1 » Infosys team at Pulse 2012 - Day 0. I am back again in Vegas for IBM Pulse 2012. Then onwards, IBM is enhancing it every year, from a mere service management in 2008 to Dynamic Infrastructure to optimization of world infrastructure in 2012.