Bob Ferrari has written a piece recently in his blog on key takaways from 19th Annual State of Logistics Report sponsored by Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). I found his...

Yes! Finally Supplychainer.com reached the level of 1000 posts in its website. I wanted to take this as an opportunity to thank all the supporters of Supplychainer; especially Erci Joiner, Jeff...

Recently The Chinese Central Government modified China's national holiday schedule. In 2008, the holiday falling the first week in May will be reduced from seven days to three. Some industry...

It's good sometimes to look back and review some of the valuable insights available in the classic supply chain literature. One of the most popular classic articles in supply chain is the Triple A...

I think a while ago I had a post about the World Bank`s recent ranking of the countries in respect to trade logistics and the situation in Africa. Well, here you can see the full ranking. The...

Short news for the people who do business with Africa: The results of a survey about trade logistics done by World Bank shows that the following countries have the most reliable supply chains in...

I think some while ago I asked you about the issues which are on the top of the supply chain people's list. After summarizing the results, here comes what you suggested: - RFID: Invest or not...

Risk management in the context of supply chains has become a big issue. AMR Research publishes reports on risk issue and the importance of response management and even professors in academia (e.g....

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency started a partnership couple of years ago (I think it was 2004) called SmartWay Transport Partnership. What they tended to do in this partnership was to to...

A Warehouse Management System which can satisfy your company's operational requirements will definitely increase the productivity in the plant or your distribution center, but the problem is...