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Supplier-Led Innovation Workshop

Supply Chain View from the Field

If your organization is struggling to establish an effective supplier-led innovation process, you’ll want to reserve your seat at Management Roundtable’s newest two-day intensive workshop, Supplier-Led Innovation: Re-engineering the Product Development Process for Successful Supplier Integration , to be held May 20 – 21, 2014 in Chicago.

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Apple Procurement Leader Hails from NC State

NC State SCRC

Mr. Blevins studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State, and grew up near Jefferson, NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We have conducted a number of workshops around improving relationships between buyers and sellers to find new ways of creating value, and believe these may have better long-run impacts.

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Why Can’t The Supply Chain Get Rid of Abuse?

Material Handling & Logistics

also based in China, was found in violation of basic working conditions, as it compelled workers to stand for up to 10 hours a day in hot workshops slicing and blasting iPhone casings and handling noxious chemicals, sometimes without proper gloves or masks. In January of this year, another Apple supplier, Catcher Technology Co., And the U.S.

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

Following a project we did last fall, Lenovo’s Data Centre Group (DCG) at Morrisville, North Carolina is seeking to identify and explore its opportunities for process improvement and supply chain efficiency by leveraging Blockchain. This project is the e xtension of an executive workshop we ran last fall.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

When he moved to Michigan State, he learned more about what was going on in the industry by hanging out with executives at Bob Moczka’s industry workshops in the 1990s. Inspired by this experience, he started the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) at North Carolina (NC) State University.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

We were surprised to find that many states with the highest Location Quotients were not states that are typically associated with the biofuels economy, including Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Maine, and others. Insight #5: The Industry Would Benefit from a Research-Oriented Consortia.