Sat.May 21, 2011 - Fri.May 27, 2011

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Innovation’s Impact on the High-Tech Industry

Logility

Just the other week I met with one of our consumer high-tech customers who spoke about the impact of the pace of innovation on their industry. He mentioned how the supply chain organization, particularly aftermarket parts , has changed and how they have had to evolve their forecasting and inventory management practices. Then, just a couple of days later, a supply chain industry analyst mentioned how this SKU proliferation is becoming a key issue with increasing risk associated to obsolete invent

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Revised OECD Guidelines to Mandate “Sustainable Supply Chain” Practices

EcoVadis

Just yesterday the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises , which provide recommendations for responsible business conduct in a global context, were updated for the fourth time since they were first adopted in 1976. Forty-two countries adopted the revision with the main addition “new recommendations regarding the violation of human rights and corporate responsibility throughout the chain supply”.