Supply Chain View from the Field
DECEMBER 16, 2013
I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.
Enterra Insights
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Most analysts believe the future looks bright for renewable energy sources. This means that ever-more of our energy system can become less reliant on traditional sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas, thereby reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”[3] ”[4].
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Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
Doug Cutting and Mike Carafella in an effort to improve searching created a distributed storage system termed Hadoop. Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. HANA plays an important role in improving the scale of transactional data.
Supply Chain View from the Field
JANUARY 30, 2013
The problem stems from the fact that Walmart (as well as other retailers like Target, JC Penney, Nordstrom’s and others) source products from tier one suppliers – and audit these suppliers, require them to comply to a code of conduct, and seek to drive enforcement to the tenets of a code of conduct as identified by the ILO.
Supply Chain Network
JUNE 30, 2011
Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. In fact, all of the BRIC countries are now in the top 10 economies, with Brazil at 9, Russia at 6, India at 4 and China 2nd. The company sources the majority of its products from contract manufacturers in the Far East.
Supply Chain Game Changer
APRIL 26, 2020
I learned a lot from them over many years; first chasing parts and capacity, then dealing with the contraction after Y2K and migration to lower cost countries in the early 2000’s, the expansion into the BRIC countries, the integration of information from customer to supplier to sub-tier supplier and so on. What are you working on these days?
BlueYonder
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
There is no question that the automotive industry has seen rapid change and improvement over the past three years. They don’t see it as an enabler of global manufacturing and sourcing, or as a way of increasing customer loyalty through great service. Here is an excerpt of that conversation. For them it’s just a cost.
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