Supply Chain View from the Field
APRIL 27, 2013
An explanation offered by Christensen was what he coined“The Church of New Finance,” in which business school professors act as the high priests that indoctrinate their MBAs into a belief system of complex, ratio-based financial metrics as the only correct system of measurement.
Supply Chain View from the Field
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
In this case, the context was an annual bid and quote negotiation they had to do with electronic manufacturers who wanted to ship products from the factories in Asia to the US. We happened to use the example of a high end consumer electronics manufacturer, but in truth, any one of the manufacturers operated the same way.
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Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing. As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities. The growth expectations of the BRIC countries is worrisome. Today, we live in volatile times.
Supply Chain View from the Field
OCTOBER 24, 2014
The supply chain design is very much focused on contract manufacturing to a network of factories. Most of the luxury brands’ global supply chain manufacturing networks are in Asia, with the biggest location being China – which is becoming too expensive. There has been a strong push for more US manufacturing in recent years.
Logistics Bureau
JULY 11, 2018
If upstream partners fail, as in the case of Thai computer disk drive manufacturers (factories hit by flooding) or Japanese semi-conductor producers (the 2011 tsunami), supply chains running too lean may have no fallback solutions. While the lean concept was born from the world of manufacturing, agility came largely from software development.
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