Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

'The collapse of the garment factory in Bangladesh last week , which killed at least 705 workers and injured thousands of others, has put a spotlight on a problem that plagues many supply chains: the use of slave labor. Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.

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SCM Research

MAY 5, 2013

'Nobel laureates rarely publish articles in journals within the supply chain arena. Vernon L. Smith was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms” In its recent issue, the Journal of Business Logistics had the great privilege to publish an article by Cary Deck and him, in which these ideas were applied to our field: Using L

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 6, 2013

'There are 11 transportation service offerings. Last summer, Inbound Logistics published a list of different 3PLs and their services. The article listed 11 different types of transportation services and I decided to write an overview of those 11 transportation service offerings described in the article. I wrote a similar overview for warehousing: The 7 Warehouse Service Offerings.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 8, 2013

'What is the biggest barrier to social media integration in the supply chain. “the supply chain leader will have to first learn about social technologies to apply them, and the digital marketing person will have to learn about supply chain before he can have the discussion” says Lora Cecere. When you’re past this first –critical- phase, the following infographic, based on a research by O’Leary (2011), you might get a good idea how social media integration can help across four categories: S

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

'For those of you who follow international sports, you know that the king of sports is soccer, and the Superbowl of soccer tournaments is the European’s Champion League. And what teams are playing in this year’s title game? Germany vs. Germany. Two German clubs, one from Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley and the other from Munich in deepest Bavaria, will face off for the European title, which means the nationality of the champion is already assured.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2013

'New performance horizons. Will the cloud enable industry-level supply chain collaboration? Cloud computing is gaining a lot of ground in the supply chain domain, with applications ranging from new analytics to dynamic routing and powerful track and trace features. But what lies beyond these solutions? We’ll be discussing the future of the cloud during our Crossroads conference on June 26 th.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 8, 2013

'Increasing market dynamics and volatility put more emphasis on achieving planning excellence and raise the general level of attention for this topic. Although a recognized concept for many years, comprehensive deployment of S&OP has only occurred in recent years within the process industries. Some of the key findings regarding the current status of S&OP process maturity include: Many of the responding companies in the industry sector have already established a well-organized S&OP pr

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 10, 2013

'I recently interviewed John Zapko at Lenovo, who talked to me about some of the issues Lenovo is facing globally around supply chain talent management. John began our interview by commenting on the importance of this topic. Zapko: Without question, attracting talent, bringing it on board, being able to hire this talent and especially retaining talent around the world in some of our most important positions, not only at management levels, senior management levels, but also commodity management

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BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2013

'JDA FOCUS 2013 got off to a great start on Sunday. The beautiful Florida sunshine and warm breeze had everyone entering the amazing Marriott Resort and Convention Center with smiles already on their faces. Attendees arrived early and spirits were high as the Registration Desk was at its usual best processing guests quickly so they could start taking in the sights and sounds of what will be the best-attended FOCUS to date.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

'In our ongoing discussion of labor and human rights violations in the supply chain, we’ve discussed in prior posts the problems that occurred in Bangladesh resulting in over 700 dead. Companies like Nike and Disney have publicly stated that they are not going to Bangladesh for apparel sourcing in the future. But that leaves these companies with what other options?

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BlueYonder

MAY 8, 2013

'Day 3 of JDA FOCUS 2013 began on an inspirational and insightful note as Rudy Giuliani, the 107 th Mayor of New York City shared his thoughts on what makes a good leader. Mr. Giuliani’s insights on leadership, team building and problem solving were well received by the 2,600+ attendees and the crowd was impressed with both his speech and his message.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 6, 2013

'News of the increasing death toll in Bangladesh continues to pour in, with the latest at 600 found dead in the rubble of the Rama factory complex. Demonstrators are protesting apparel offices (such as Gap’s offices in San Francisco) to demand better working conditions in Bangladesh factories. But how easy is it for companies to turn off the flow of cheap labor?

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