Companies have different motivations for launching promotion programs: Some want to get rid of the inventory in the warehouses, some of them are get paid by the suppliers, some want to increase...

These days Apple people are claiming that they have sold more than 3 million iPhones in 2007 and they estimate that they are going to sell another 7 million in 2008. I don't know how many...

I have already written a little about this but reading Hottest Supply Chain Buzzwords list in Industry Week became a motivation for me to pinpoint the issue one more time: Many manufacturers in U.S....

One of the interesting Figures which I saw recently on the subject of change management belongs to David Viney. We all have heard a lot about change management: The fact that is important and we have...

I was reading Financial Times today and again saw an article about the Nintendo's problems in Wii's supply chain. Apparently some of the Wii's suppliers can't scale up fast enough and...

Christmas period is coming again and also the wave of the news about stockout of different range of products; The newest one was about last week: george harrison, senior vice president for marketing,...

Christmas is coming; everybody is happy: The kids are happy because they are going to get lots of presents, parents are happy coz they can rest a bit after that or go on a trip, marketing and sales...

We all know that only a fraction of companies implementing enterprise software can achieve a positive ROI from their system implementation projects (SAP, Oracle, or any other). A good area for...

Well, remember the earlier post which I wrote on the new supplier relationship system at Boeing? I warned about the drawbacks of over-outsourcing the design activities to the suppliers AND...Here it...

Steven Schaffer, vice president of global partners at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, was selected couple of weeks ago as the supply chain manager of the year by Purchasing Magazine. One of the reasons...

In my point of vies, effective optimization of inventory in the supply chain is one of the most important tasks in SCM division but this task can very challenging. Below you can read some of my...

Here comes a more explicit explanation of my earlier post: I saw a 2x2 matrix last week in SC Digest which was originally developed by Dr. John Gattorna, well-known academic in SCM area. Below you can...

Considering the the low transparency of operations in China, one question that comes to the mind is that: "What demand planning tools are better for companies which have China operations?"...

I got into an interesting discussion the other day about the position of Demand Planner. The question was simple: Where should we put demand planner? in Procurement? Sales? Operations? or supply...

As the companies grow and become global, their supply chains also become more complex and thus they face more risks compared to the past. So, what should they do? Well, we can not say that they...

David Gilmore of SC digest, Andrew White of Gartner and nearly every expert in the supply chain software market is saying: These days are good days for SCM solution vendors! Even the ones which are...

Well It's not a new thing but it has been highlighted by another research done by ARC Advisory Group. Based on the results of a survey, the company has found out that the common mental model among...

Couple of weeks ago, I posted a piece about the logistics plans which are currently under development for LONDON 2012 event. It's obvious that that planning the ACTUAL movement of the material,...